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

nJoy

[Del_Boy]

OMG sorry for being such a noob!

Ive found it now!

[Del_Boy]

Got it working and i have tested it out...i love it!

Thanks very much for being so patient and helping me out!

[BlackJacket]

Great mod. Thanks!

*Install's and does the train Solo...*

[BBF]

Originally Posted by tkam

Check your definitions if you didn't clear them out before upgrading there are probably some duplicates.

Thank you!
it works great now!

[GlamRockTalk]

* tagged *

I have to read through to make sure what I should do to upgrade to the "official" AME 2.5

I'll hopefully do that this evening. Thanks for the release! :up:

[Fabikus]

Validation ability. This will help prevent media being embedded that can not be embedded (i.e. youtube videos that the author has stipulated can not be shown off of youtube). This option requires the extraction option to be turned on and a valid validation regexp. I have included one in the default youtube version. When a video on you tube gets embedded, but the author doesnt allow embedding, a link (with icon) is shown instead.

How can i use that for YouTube? I imported DJ's AME definitions but i can't see a link for theese videos but normal embed!

[Manic Mechanic]

How do I enlarge the videos in the posts? I tried changing the default settings and that did nothing. Since I installed this update all videos are showing up too small.

[talkncaasports]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Keep in mind, many media sites change their formats frequently. Also, many definitions will need updating for this version.

I will look into the changes when I get home from work. Forgot all about that. Thanks.

If it does work, I'll let ya now. If not, I will let ya now.

Great job on this btw. I grew tired of making custom BB Codes for every freaking piece of media out there. :up:

[KURTZ]

hi Greek, i've just upgraded your superb hack, but i saw in the ACP that is still 2.5.0 and not 2.5.1 ...

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Fabikus

How can i use that for YouTube? I imported DJ's AME definitions but i can't see a link for theese videos but normal embed!

Hmm... Im not sure about DJ's definitions but the default youtube does have this... or... rather did. I just looked to let you know hoe to tell and noticed some dweeby gremlin stole the validation code from the latest version. Ill release an update that will fix that (and a couple other minor issues) later today.