Major Additions - AME 2.5 - Media Embedding for posts, sigs, vm's, groups and blogs

From the makers of the letters O and Yea comes the hottest 'must have mod' of the season: AME 2.5 - The Return of The Hot Mama.

Thanks everyone for making AME 2.5 Mod of the Month

AME is the multi award winning modification that smartly scans new and edited posts for URLs from a customisable variety of web sites (i.e. YouTube or Amazon or about 200 others). If it finds a match, AME will 'transform' the URL into inline embedded media without your users ever having to even think about it.

It was important for me to create a system that did not need updating (and subsequent reinstalling) every time one of the sites it supported decided to change the way it displayed its media (which is all the fricken time). Therefore I built a system in which the 'definitions' for each site could be imported, exported, tweaked and shared on a whim. This way, you only have to import the definitions that you want. It also allows the vB community to get creative and share definitions that I wouldn't of thought of!

Which sites are supported?

Included in the default installation is YouTube and Amazon. At time of posting this, I believe that there are over 180 sites supported that have been created by the vBulletin community. These range from sites that stream videos to Amazon referral links to locally hosted music and video files.

Check out the 'add ons' section of this post below to see availible add-ons.

For a total list of features and an FAQ, see click here.
For a post on troubleshooting, click here.

Though not tested on any version of vBulletin lower than 3.7.4, in theory it should work on versions 3.5 and higher (just dont quote this bit!).

Big thanks goes out to all those in the community that have supported this mod. Especially Digital Jedi who gives great support on this mod and has created over 160 definitions for this system alone!


Installation/Upgrade

• Upload the contents of the forums folder into your forums directory and import the product-ame.xml file into your product manager (if upgrading, choose 'yes' to overwrite previous installation).
• After installation, make sure that the system is on (admincp->AME CP->Settings)
• Then you may want to try to rebuild old URLs via the tools option.

Change Log

• 20/1/09 - Uploaded to vb.org
• 22/1/09 - v. 2.5.2. Adresses a couple minor issues and character sets
• 23/1/09 - v. 2.5.3 minor update: Fixed ksort error on import and nomedia display
• 3/2/09 - v. 2.5.4 minor update to address rare bug with some page titles
• 3/7/09 - v.2.5.5 minor updates to address rare bug editing media with brackets in name
• 9/12/09 - v.2.5.6 minor updates youtubes validation process, a ccurl bug and rebuild not using the date like a good girl

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[The Geek]

Originally Posted by khashabawy

for old topics : [vbAnonymizer installed]

the video is ok on youtube but it still shows the link and image beside

it just shows : YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.

i should edit the post and post it a gain

the reasone is vbAnonymizer

can you fix it so the links be checked if they are youtube links or not b4 they are vbAnonymized

Sorry, but no. There isn't anything to fix. I don't know vbAnonymizer but would suspect it changes all URLs. If thats the case, tell it to leave AME's stuff alone!

[khashabawy]

If thats the case, tell it to leave AME's stuff alone!

How Could I :-)

can you try solving it ??

this mod doesn't confilct with it and works for 3.8.x perfectly

[chick]

Geek if removing the validation setting for youtube (how to do this???) and turning the extract back on will it allow the video to have 'the name of the video' again at the top of the player???
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EDIT
ok I just tested and turned extract back on and removed the validation BUT YouTube- Broadcast Yourself. STILL shows at the top of the video. It does not pull the video name

[influence]

how do u uninstall this mod? I am getting this error whenever I try

Database error in vBulletin 3.7:

Invalid SQL:
ALTER TABLE `usergroup` DROP `automediaembed_edit_permissions`;

MySQL Error : Can't DROP 'automediaembed_edit_permissions'; check that column/key exists
Error Number : 1091
Request Date : Sunday, December 6th 2009 @ 04:43:15 AM
Error Date : Sunday, December 6th 2009 @ 04:43:15 AM
Script : forums/admincp/plugin.php?do=productkill.php?do=kill
Referrer : forums/admincp/plugin.php?do=productkill
IP Address : xxxxxxxxxx
Username : xxxxx
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 4.1.22-standard

[chick]

Does anyone know how to force it to start pulling the video name again???

[testbot]

i'm not sure how the rebuild under tools works. if i make a change to an existing definition how to i rebuild all the old posts that are using the old definition to reflect this new change.

[Alan_SP]

Ok, problem is when I'm importing all definitions from one file, it imported only first ones up to "Daily HaHa (Funny Pictures)"

It said it worked like a charm, but it hasn't. Others are skipped, or something. They aren't there...

But when I start to manually import one by one definition, I can import them. And they work ok.

How to import all definitions in one go? Is there something I should change in php.ini file and where should I put this changed php.ini file? Has anybody idea? It's vB3.8.4

[Defkalion]

Originally Posted by vwdforum

Hi Guys.

I've noticed the pins do not appear on vbgooglemaps if I have AME - The Automatic Media Embeder 2.5.5 enabled.

If I disable AME the pin's appear.

Any idea how to fix this issue?

Thanks Mally

I have the same problem, does anyone know if there is a fix? If not, is there a way to disable the AME product in just this googlemapsme page? It's just one php file.

[The Geek]

Just uploaded 2.5.6 which:

• Removes Youtube's validation process. This was the source of a lot of fals positives 'no media' links appearing.
• Fixed a typo which led to ccurl not being used if availible (another source of woe)
• Fixed a couple other minor things

Note regarding upgrading: If you use the file cache, you MUST rebuild your file cache after upgrading. To do so, upgrade then browse to AME CP > Tools > Resync File Cache.

Regarding 4.0 support: There will be a new version of AME for vb4.0. In fact, I already have a prototype working. It still remains to be seen if as many features can be includeded in this series as the last, but the fundamentals will be there.

v. 2.5.6 discussions start here

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by chick

Does anyone know how to force it to start pulling the video name again???

It can only pull the name if extraction is on. Try 2.5.6 and turn the extraction back on.