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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[Pandemikk]

Thanks! Issue has been resolved.

[jdougher]

Originally Posted by DieselMinded

remove the validation code from the Youtube AME definition it fixed mine

No, that does not work.

[Ricsca]

For vbulletin 4.0.x version?

[Falkware]

This just stopped working by itself, no changes made. Made sure we're using the latest version. using vBulletin 3.8.4.

YouTube links used to convert to embedded video containers, but now only display an icon and a link to the video.

Verified the Validation field under YouTube is still empty. Verified the default settings are still in use, the same ones that used to work.

If I wrap the YouTube link in [ame] tags it works just fine. It just seems to no longer automatically convert these. Any ideas?

[Breakpoint]

Removing the validation code and then re-editing posts with YOUTUBE links work.

[creativepart]

There is nothing in the Validation Code box in my install. It's blank. So there is nothing to remove. The new YouTube URLs have broken this encoder.

[tipoboy]

same problem youtube links dont automatically convert, but if you wrap the link in [ame]*[/ame] tages then the video converts just fine...

[creativepart]

When I tried this, putting ame tags around the link, my system just changed the ame tags to url tags automatically.

[DSOG Thomas]

ok so a couple of weeks ago youtube stopped embedding automatically and now just posts links. my AME has been working fine for a long time

I can embed youtube by using the embed code inside the [youtube] wrappers, but that defeats the entire purpose


before you ask, nothing has been changed on my site and videos from other places still work, vimeo etc

here is a test page I did

http://stuntride.com/vbstunt/showthread.php?t=13438

in post 1 I posted the url I got the link (its formatted funny though, so ame is still doing something)
in post 2 I posted just the youtube video url inside the [youtube] tags and it resulted in a white box
in post 3 I put just the embed code and I got text
in post 4 i posted the embed code inside the [youtube] tags and it worked

[James T Brock]

Is this incompatible with passivevid? Will I be able to use passivevid for youtube and deactivate/delete the youtube definitions from this script and use it for all of the other supported sites and both will co-exist fine together?