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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[Falkware]

Sounds like YouTube has made changes which breaks this script. Without the conversion links to embedded videos there's no point in using this.

[clarkstoncracke]

anybody find a fix for this yet? This is annoying. Youtube changed something in its coding that AME isn't jiving with

[DSOG Thomas]

yeah this sucks

[Digital Jedi]

For those of you having the YouTube problems, you'll need to be sure you have cleared the content of your Validation Regex. You'll likely also need the YouTube definition from my thread, as that is more current than this one. Remember that changes to your posts have to be made manually, so just changing the definition won't fix anything. You'll need to reedit existing posts and possible resynch your file cache.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by 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?

This is TOTALLY incompatible with passiveVid. Installing them together will create a HOST of issues you may not be able to undo. Besides, AME supports about a hundred more sites than passiveVid currently does. You just need to get them from my add on.

Originally Posted by Ricsca

For vbulletin 4.0.x version?

When looking to see if there's a new version of any modification, just look at the author's profile. All his modifications will be listed there.

[clarkstoncracke]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

For those of you having the YouTube problems, you'll need to be sure you have cleared the content of your Validation Regex. You'll likely also need the YouTube definition from my thread, as that is more current than this one. Remember that changes to your posts have to be made manually, so just changing the definition won't fix anything. You'll need to reedit existing posts and possible resynch your file cache.

I went from 2.5.5 - 2.5.6 and this corrected my issue. Thank You

[jdougher]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

For those of you having the YouTube problems, you'll need to be sure you have cleared the content of your Validation Regex. You'll likely also need the YouTube definition from my thread, as that is more current than this one. Remember that changes to your posts have to be made manually, so just changing the definition won't fix anything. You'll need to reedit existing posts and possible resynch your file cache.

Still broken. Guess it's time to uninstall this one. It simply doesn't work.

[James T Brock]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

This is TOTALLY incompatible with passiveVid. Installing them together will create a HOST of issues you may not be able to undo. Besides, AME supports about a hundred more sites than passiveVid currently does. You just need to get them from my add on.

passiveVid doesn't change the tags like AME does, it's just ... passive. My forum has over 2 million posts and with AME I'd have to spend an hour running the script to update the old youtube links and then spend just as long if I ever needed to uninstall it and didn't want the left-over AME bbcode. With passiveVid all I had to do was click the "update forum counter" option which took like five seconds to run. So for youtube I'd prefer to use passiveVid however I'd like to use this script for everything else.

I already installed passiveVid and AME together on a test forum and the only negative effects that I'm aware of is double videos being posted unless I go into AME manually and delete the definitions for the sites that passiveVid already uses.

What other host of problems are you referring to that I wouldn't be able to undo?

[creativepart]

I'm running AME 2.5.6 the Validation section of the Admin is blank and it's not working at all for me either.

I'm sorry to see this functionality go away.

[ehd]

Is there a way to add Amazon's tag also in the first link above the picture?

Right now the partner-tag only shows up in the picture-link and the link below the picture.

And all German characters get screwed up. Anything I can prevent this?

Example:

Fussball-Weltmeisterschaft S?dafrika 2010: Amazon.de: Sven Simon: B?cher

Fussball-Weltmeisterschaft Südafrika 2010: Amazon.de: Sven Simon: Bücher

Thanks alot