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

[Rafa-el]

I do that several times without sucess, btw thanks for help.

[Yellow Slider]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

That's not an AME error, but an issue with your database:

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away

When that goes away, action you would have taken would have put up a similar message.

yep, it's taking a lot of time to complete the action so the mysql server shut's the connection down, first you had to build up the query and then send it, and not build the query as when you start querying, it's taking too long to convert a lot of links so the server closes the connection.

can you please try to post more then 6 megavideo links and see that it's taking too long?
do you think that if I'll use the filecache it will work faster?

[Digital Jedi]

To be honest, I feel the root of your problem is that your trying to post six videos at one time. I know it's convenient to do the auto conversion thing all at once, but I think six videos is pushing it, especially from a site like MegaVideo, which runs slow to being with. I don't know that the file cache will do anything to new posts, but you can attempt it. It shouldn't hurt anything. Make sure it's CHMODed.

[SyrLinus]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Uncheck validation.

Where's the Validation option? I've been trying to find it. Every since YouTube changed their interface, it's screwed up pretty much all the videos.

[MikesSite]

I've been having some issue lately. Most videos are being created as links, rather then embedding. To fix the issue I edit the post, highlight the video url, and remove the link. Hoping to get this resolved.

[Phaedrus]

Youtube appears to have changed its embedding or something with their "upgrades" it seems not to work anymore...

[Lorraine-H]

I had the same problem - been using this mod ever since I set up my forums and it's been working fine. Today, however I noticed that new videos (or videos in existing posts if the post is edited) are showing up as followed by the video name. Youtube must have changed something as it has been working fine up until now but as someone else said changing the validation in AME settings sorts it. Took me a while to figure out where this was and noticed someone else posted they couldn't find this so thought I'd post instructions for anyone else to make it easy.

Login to Admin and on the left where you see AME click on the little arrow to expand the AME menu and then select Display Definitions. You'll see in the main window Youtube listed as a link. Click on the Youtube link. The very last box on the YouTube page definition is "Validation" - remove what is in this box and click on Save. You should then find that if you post a youtube video link in a post it will now appear embedded and display in the post. It doesn't change the un-embedded links to videos already posted so to change these links to embedded videos you need to edit the post to take the link out, then post the youtube url back in the post for it to be embedded.

[yamahapaul]

Originally Posted by Lorraine-H

Login to Admin and on the left where you see AME click on the little arrow to expand the AME menu and then select Display Definitions. You'll see in the main window Youtube listed as a link. Click on the Youtube link. The very last box on the YouTube page definition is "Validation" - remove what is in this box and click on Save. You should then find that if you post a youtube video link in a post it will now appear embedded and display in the post. It doesn't change the un-embedded links to videos already posted so to change these links to embedded videos you need to edit the post to take the link out, then post the youtube url back in the post for it to be embedded.

Thanks for this fix, it works like a charm :up:

[dknelson]

Thanks...that worked for me too. Apparently they did change something but that corrected it.

[SyrLinus]

Originally Posted by Lorraine-H

I had the same problem - been using this mod ever since I set up my forums and it's been working fine. Today, however I noticed that new videos (or videos in existing posts if the post is edited) are showing up as followed by the video name. Youtube must have changed something as it has been working fine up until now but as someone else said changing the validation in AME settings sorts it. Took me a while to figure out where this was and noticed someone else posted they couldn't find this so thought I'd post instructions for anyone else to make it easy.

Login to Admin and on the left where you see AME click on the little arrow to expand the AME menu and then select Display Definitions. You'll see in the main window Youtube listed as a link. Click on the Youtube link. The very last box on the YouTube page definition is "Validation" - remove what is in this box and click on Save. You should then find that if you post a youtube video link in a post it will now appear embedded and display in the post. It doesn't change the un-embedded links to videos already posted so to change these links to embedded videos you need to edit the post to take the link out, then post the youtube url back in the post for it to be embedded.

Ours was already empty and we still only get the Video Name link.