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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[Chadi]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Chadi, looking back through my bookmarks, it looks like you would have needed to run whatever conversion tools Goldbrick may have had (presuming it had any) that would convert [media] back to URL. Otherwise, I don't believe there is a way with 2.5's tools to properly convert a single tag wrapped around multiple URLs from multiple sites.

Would anyone here know about this?

[scottct1]

This was working good for a long time until today.

It would take over 2 minutes for a page to load on my site. By disabling AME (and only AME) in the control panel my site is back up to speed again.

If I re-enable it the slow page loads start again. So it is disabled for now.

Anyone have this happen to them before?

[scottct1]

I went in and uninstalled the mod.

Once it was done uninstalling I went in and reinstalled it and now things are good again. I am not sure what gotmessed up in it but glad I have it working again.

[RedHotChili]

Looks like a great mod. Hope to implement it today and get it up and running trouble free.

I too am looking to be able to embed widescreen videos such as provided by youtube. Hope the following post by ghostpt does the trick.

Originally Posted by ghostpt

You have to change the Default Width and Height on AdminCP > AME CP > Settings. I use 858x508, works fine for me.

I really can't remember if I change my Youtube definitions (Admin CP > AME CP > DisplayDefinitions > Youtube) so here it goes:

<object width="$ameinfo[width]" height="$ameinfo[height]">
<param name=''movie'' value="http://www.youtube.com/v/$p1&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&fs=1"></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/$p1&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&fs=1&hl=pt-br&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="$ameinfo[width]" height="$ameinfo[height]" wmode="transparent"></embed></object>

I'm getting HQ Widescreen on all videos. Hope it helps.

[RedHotChili]

Awesomeness!

Thank you so much, The Geek, for this most excellent mod. Brilliantly designed and brilliantly implemented. Best mod I've come across so far. Obviously a lot of skilled work went into this. I applaud you for the excellent work and for kindly sharing it with us.

Btw, the setting that I've come up with to give me the same exact widescreen setting that youtube uses is 385x650. I don't know how this will impact those vids that are of the smaller 4:3 format. I assume they'll just be embedded inside the same size object dimensions that I've set as the default, and will just have the vertical black bars on the left and the right of the displayed vid. But no problem living with it that way.

Thanks again.

[RedHotChili]

I'm currently having a problem when I enable file cache.

I get the following error:

AME can not write to /public_html/forums/amecache/. Check permissions to ensure path is writeable.

Well, I checked the permissions and the path is indeed writeable. I have this mod set up on a test forum on my local machine and everything works just fine when I enable file cache, and I don't get that error message.

Anybody have any idea what might fix this problem? Like I said I double checked each step along the path to make sure it's writeable. I then uninstalled using the Product Manager and reinstalled to see if that would help, but nope, didn't help.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by scottct1

This was working good for a long time until today.

It would take over 2 minutes for a page to load on my site. By disabling AME (and only AME) in the control panel my site is back up to speed again.

If I re-enable it the slow page loads start again. So it is disabled for now.

Anyone have this happen to them before?

AME shouldn't have any effect on page load, other than pages where AME is actually being used. And even then, page load would only be affected by the videos in question. Only other thing I think it could be is a mod conflict.

Originally Posted by RedHotChili

I'm currently having a problem when I enable file cache.

I get the following error:

Well, I checked the permissions and the path is indeed writeable. I have this mod set up on a test forum on my local machine and everything works just fine when I enable file cache, and I don't get that error message.

Anybody have any idea what might fix this problem? Like I said I double checked each step along the path to make sure it's writeable. I then uninstalled using the Product Manager and reinstalled to see if that would help, but nope, didn't help.

Are you certain the path is correct? The full path will usually start above public_html and include your domain and hosting user name: Ex: home/[username]/public_html/[domain name]/forums/amecache

[RedHotChili]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Are you certain the path is correct? The full path will usually start above public_html and include your domain and hosting user name: Ex: home/[username]/public_html/[domain name]/forums/amecache

Thanks for responding Digital Jedi, and thanks for your valuable contributions here.

Yes, I truncated for simplicity.

Just as a check, I uninstalled and deleted all the files, then uploaded all the files and then re-installed the product-ame.xml file. And I'm still getting the same error message in the AME CP, even after ensuring that the path was correct and writeable.

Should I ignore it?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by RedHotChili

Thanks for responding Digital Jedi, and thanks for your valuable contributions here.

Yes, I truncated for simplicity.

Just as a check, I uninstalled and deleted all the files, then uploaded all the files and then re-installed the product-ame.xml file. And I'm still getting the same error message in the AME CP, even after ensuring that the path was correct and writeable.

Should I ignore it?

Correction. I should have said /home. That first slash can make a difference. You said it was writable, but is it fully CHMODed? The permissions need to be 777.

[RedHotChili]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Correction. I should have said /home. That first slash can make a difference. You said it was writable, but is it fully CHMODed? The permissions need to be 777.

I double checked and, no, it apparently wasn't fully CHMODed. So I manually set the permissions to 777, and now I'm not getting the error or warning message.

So this means that "User" and "Group" and "World" have Read, Write, & Execute permissions when set to 777, is this how it should be?

If so, I'm good to go, apparently. Please confirm if this is how I should have it set up.