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

[qbn720]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Just running the Add Blog Support tool should add it in.

Thanks!

[Gladhatter]

You wear a hat Mark?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Gladhatter

You wear a hat Mark?

Um, yes? Yes I do.

[Gladhatter]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Um, yes? Yes I do.

And fine looking lid at that sir! Thanks for the support!

[vauge]

Originally Posted by Fug?

I run VB 3.8.4 PATCH2

Could patch 2 be to blame?

Originally Posted by The Geek

Doubt it. Can you paste a link to a post that isn't autoconverting?

Yep, there is an issue after installing PL2 patch.

See attached.

[The Geek]

You have duplicate definitions. Remove one of your youtube ones.

[vauge]

Thank you.

[SwollenCranium]

Hiya ..

There are no UNinstall instructions in the Read-me file.

I did not just want to uninstall the product in a haphazard fashion ... any special care needed ?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by SwollenCranium

Hiya ..

There are no UNinstall instructions in the Read-me file.

I did not just want to uninstall the product in a haphazard fashion ... any special care needed ?

Not really. There's some directions within the modification itself if you want to remove the AME tags before uninstalling, but other than that, it isn't different than any other modification.

[drjdh]

This application doesn't seem to work unless HTML is turned on for the forum. Is there a way to get around this? If not, is this a big security concern?