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

[Iguana Goddess]

Originally Posted by SyrLinus

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

I am having that issue as well. Funny thing is, when someone uploads a video into the video directory and they tick the box to post a thread with it, the video embeds no problem. The issue is when we try to manually post a video.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by SyrLinus

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.

Originally Posted by Phaedrus

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

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.

Originally Posted by SyrLinus

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

Originally Posted by Iguana Goddess

I am having that issue as well. Funny thing is, when someone uploads a video into the video directory and they tick the box to post a thread with it, the video embeds no problem. The issue is when we try to manually post a video.

Seems I forgot Validation doesn't have it's own column in the definitions listing. You would need to blank that field then. Turning of extraction, however, will prevent you from pulling video titles.

[Daryn]

I get the impression that this Youtube issue isn't something we can really fix at the moment, not while Youtube seem to be modifying the video page often as of late. Hopefully when it settles down we can get a proper definition update.

[jaffinio]

Hello

I have installed version 2.5.6 on vb 3.8.5. Installation process passed without any problems and errors on the way. Yet, I seem to miss something.

There are 2 default recognition patterns. When I try simply adding url pointing to an youtube video it displays text. No additional content. But when surrounded with ame tag it is displayed properly. I can't figure it out. I read many posts and searched the forums but I can not seem to get any answear at all.

Please help

[tjhanes]

Originally Posted by dknelson

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

Perfect, thanx.

[DontWannaName]

I am trying to delete all of my definitions to install DJ's but when I try to do so the screen ends up white. When I delete them one by one it work. I also cannot import DJ's, I get the same white screen. Am I hitting some kind of max?

[webmaster74]

Where can I find the Regular expression and replacement html code to use for other video sites ?
for example for DailyMotion.
What are the Regular expression and Replacement html code ?
Can anybody help please ?

[SyrLinus]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Seems I forgot Validation doesn't have it's own column in the definitions listing. You would need to blank that field then. Turning of extraction, however, will prevent you from pulling video titles.

That's the thing: I did blank it and it still won't work. I do agree that whatever YouTube did to alter it's code is still out there. For now, I created the standard YouTube tags and have my users doing that but it would be nice to use AME instead.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Daryn

I get the impression that this Youtube issue isn't something we can really fix at the moment, not while Youtube seem to be modifying the video page often as of late. Hopefully when it settles down we can get a proper definition update.

Some of it does, yet so far, I've not been able to duplicate any problems on my board other than the validation issue. I feel like something else might be at play.

Originally Posted by jaffinio

Hello

I have installed version 2.5.6 on vb 3.8.5. Installation process passed without any problems and errors on the way. Yet, I seem to miss something.

There are 2 default recognition patterns. When I try simply adding url pointing to an youtube video it displays text. No additional content. But when surrounded with ame tag it is displayed properly. I can't figure it out. I read many posts and searched the forums but I can not seem to get any answear at all.

Please help

Is your cache enabled?

Originally Posted by DontWannaName

I am trying to delete all of my definitions to install DJ's but when I try to do so the screen ends up white. When I delete them one by one it work. I also cannot import DJ's, I get the same white screen. Am I hitting some kind of max?

Try reuploading admincp/automediaembed_admin.php just to be sure.

Originally Posted by webmaster74

Where can I find the Regular expression and replacement html code to use for other video sites ?
for example for DailyMotion.
What are the Regular expression and Replacement html code ?
Can anybody help please ?

The additional definitions are linked in the Add On in the first post.

Originally Posted by SyrLinus

That's the thing: I did blank it and it still won't work. I do agree that whatever YouTube did to alter it's code is still out there. For now, I created the standard YouTube tags and have my users doing that but it would be nice to use AME instead.

Let me see the links you are trying to convert.

[Daryn]

DJ, there seems to be new embed options on youtube now. Maybe there's something in there that might be helpful.