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

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by 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.

Check your AME AdminCP settings. That is where all of the sizes are set. However note that is a new feature in 2.5 and older definitions may not support it yet.

Originally Posted by 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 ...

Thanks. That will be fixed for next release.

[The Geek]

Updated package to address:

• Version number
• $ameinfo[title] was showing wrong title (was showing definition title instead of page title)
• The default amazon link was updated to use $ameinfo variables.
• Fixes for additional character sets

Follow standard upgrade instructions found in first post.

nJoy

[Digital Jedi]

Thanks Geek! Will test it out right now and start working on the next set of defs if all is well. :up:

Originally Posted by buileminh

I prefer a mod that create a BB code like this:

[BBCODE=YouTuBe/GoogleVideo/.....]Video ID[/BBCODE]

You like having to give your users special instructions on how to use BBCode and then make them extract a set of numbers from the URL everytime, rather then just have them post the URL to the video and not even have to let them think about it? Okay. Just keep in mind, there's more then 20 to 30 sites that BBCode wouldn't even work with, because their videos have no video ID and AME converts them without having to even tell your users that it's going to embed.

Originally Posted by sensimilla

imeem does not work for me.. it just a link in my post, any ideas ?

Post the link to the Imeem URL that's not converting, but post it in the thread you downloaded my definitions from if you haven't already. I haven't checked those threads as of this post.

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!

If you're using mine, then I haven't implemented that yet. Mainly because I didn't know how to use it. Now that I see the The Geek has one in his default install, I can reverse engineer what he did and I'll have it ready for the next 2.5 Defs update.

Originally Posted by 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.

Make sure your using my set of definitions for 2.5 (Delta) and not the set for 2.0 (Third Time's the Charm).

[M.C.]

Hi! Could you explain more about users permissions? There is 2 groups of permissions and if I understand second (can view) but first one harder
What is non specific zones?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by M.C.

Hi! Could you explain more about users permissions? There is 2 groups of permissions and if I understand second (can view) but first one harder
What is non specific zones?

The first is creation permissions: Who's allowed to have their posted media convert and who's allowed to edit it.
The second is viewing permission: Who's allowed to see the embedded media.

I believe Non-Specific is the same as Default Zone Settings under Settings. Areas that are not specifically posts, visitor messages, signatures, vBlog or social groups.

[The Geek]

DJ's right, the default Zone (or non specified zone) is for additional mods that hook into AME's system. For instance, I had a prototype add on for creating user profile blocks using AME. Just don't know where the hell I put it That system uses AMEs hooks to embed media in users profiles.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by The Geek

DJ's right, the default Zone (or non specified zone) is for additional mods that hook into AME's system. For instance, I had a prototype add on for creating user profile blocks using AME. Just don't know where the hell I put it That system uses AMEs hooks to embed media in users profiles.

You do realize that people will go bananas once you release the profile add-on, right?

Maybe you can teach me how that works so I can try an avatar version I've been thinking on. [whistles innocently]

[The Geek]

hehe, like I said, I don't even know where the hell it is anymore

The basic gist is: Create a custom field and when it is saved or edited, use hooks to call the relevant ame functions (i.e. prep_text to 'ameify' it). Putting the results into profle blocks was pretty straight forward stuff.

[lowlight]

It freezes for me when I try to import the xml.

It just says

"Adding index to post table. Please standy by.... this bit can take a few..."

And then does nothing

[lowlight]

Uh oh, my db server just crashed. I hope the tables are OK