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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[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by idoL1

whenever any user makes a post on my site i get this error above
Thank you for posting! You will now be taken to your post. If you opted to post a poll, you will now be allowed to do so.

Warning: include([path]/amecache/findonly.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/ame_bbcode.php on line 74

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '[path]/amecache/findonly.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in [path]/includes/ame_bbcode.php on line 74


any1 have any idea on how i can fix this?

Take a close look at the error. It's saying that findonly.php doesn't exist. Check to make sure all your AME files uploaded or stayed on the server, and that your amecache folder is CHMOD 777.

[idoL1]

i looked thru the whole zip and there is NO findonly.php that i can see anywhere? =\ and whats weird is this error just started this morning i had everything working fine last night to my knowledge...

[Digital Jedi]

Unless I'm mistaken, findonly is created once the amecache is properly CHMODed. Check the permissions on the amecach folder, and then run your Synch AME Cache tool to troubleshoot.

[idoL1]

awesome the ame cache tool fixed it i ran that last night and it worked fine so i dunno wat happend but running it again fixed it..thanks alot *clicks installed*

[TMH63]

Ok, maybe someone can set me straight. I have some youtube videos that when I post the link all I get is this.....

YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.
YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.
YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.
YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.

So I uninstalled ame all together and reinstalled the whole ball of wax. Youtube videos that showed up embedded prior to what I've are still there, but there are those that say the above text. Anything I'm doing wrong?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by TMH63

Ok, maybe someone can set me straight. I have some youtube videos that when I post the link all I get is this.....

YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.
YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.
YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.
YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.

So I uninstalled ame all together and reinstalled the whole ball of wax. Youtube videos that showed up embedded prior to what I've are still there, but there are those that say the above text. Anything I'm doing wrong?

You only get video titles if Extraction is on, both globally and per definition. Also, turning them on won't suddenly extract them, as it's pulled when you post or resave the post.

[TMH63]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

You only get video titles if Extraction is on, both globally and per definition. Also, turning them on won't suddenly extract them, as it's pulled when you post or resave the post.

extraction was enabled for both and I rebuilt old posts. reposting a few of them worked.

Thanks.

[chick]

Originally Posted by TMH63

Ok, maybe someone can set me straight. I have some youtube videos that when I post the link all I get is this.....

YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.
YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.
YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.
YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.

So I uninstalled ame all together and reinstalled the whole ball of wax. Youtube videos that showed up embedded prior to what I've are still there, but there are those that say the above text. Anything I'm doing wrong?

Same here all mine still say this even after a fresh install, and I have extraction enabled.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by chick

Same here all mine still say this even after a fresh install, and I have extraction enabled.

Did you read the post above yours?

[chick]

yes both globally and per definition or edit/resave

well I resynced everything and ran the tools and insured the settings were right YET anew post still says YouTube Broadcast yourself.

Where is this GLOBALLY located?