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

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by A825F933D42B

Thanks for the fast help. the new definition helped with the %C3 urls. But I still have no solution for umlaute in titles. I did not find the post you mentioned about ASCII

No? Maybe it's in the AME 2.0 thread. I know I tried it recently and was able to correct the problem on my site, although, it was language specific. Also, try searching one of my last two definitions threads. I know it's here somewhere.

Originally Posted by NeXuM

None of the URL from megavideo or dailymotion seems to be working...

some examples:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhz...ourgeois_music
http://www.megavideo.com/?d=P70EKLNK
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xlq...let-2004_music

I'll test these a little later, but we need to move this discussion to my Delta thread.

[silentdub]

I am having trouble showing youtube videos. It always worked, but then just stopped, it shows the link but no picture.

When you arrow over the pic, it says "external embedding not available"

I installed the latest version and also installed the latest definitions.

I also deleted the previous youtube def and imported the latest from the 2.5 link.

http://www.mk1dubz.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4387

Example above:

[Whity]

After installation mod there was a following problem.

Instead of new messages in PM the blank page opens


conflict with https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=165673

[g00gl3r]

Hi,

How do I get this script to automatically add youtube videos to my forum in widescreen? It seems to just add them in standard size although the video on youtube is actually widescreen.

Can anybody help?

[Hornstar]

Anyone know why I might be getting a white screen after pressing save definitions?

[ryancooper]

Originally Posted by DieselMinded

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

This fixed it for me as well. i removed the validation code then edited and saved the post and video came up perfect! Thanks!:up:

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by silentdub

I am having trouble showing youtube videos. It always worked, but then just stopped, it shows the link but no picture.

When you arrow over the pic, it says "external embedding not available"

I installed the latest version and also installed the latest definitions.

I also deleted the previous youtube def and imported the latest from the 2.5 link.

http://www.mk1dubz.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4387

Example above:

I assume this has been fixed, as they appear fine when I check your link. Or is still happening for some videos? If you're using my definitions, we'll need to move this to my AME thread.

Originally Posted by g00gl3r

Hi,

How do I get this script to automatically add youtube videos to my forum in widescreen? It seems to just add them in standard size although the video on youtube is actually widescreen.

Can anybody help?

Settings are set globally or within the definition. It will not distinguish between aspect rations.

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

Anyone know why I might be getting a white screen after pressing save definitions?

Check your error logs or check with your host to see if maybe you getting a time out during save.

[Naan-Kadavul]

Can i know the conversion code for megavideo ?

[xTerMn8R]

I dont know whats going on here, but sometimes my embedded mp3 files play and other times it just sits there. I have extract data on, contain on and active on.

I use BBcode to embed my files since HTML is not allowed in forum. I've tried it both ways even enabling HTML and trying just URL's.
ex.

url=http://www.united4freedom.net/mp3/honor_your_flag.mp3]Song Title [/url]

I removed the [ before the url= in this post so the code would display...

If I click on the name of the Song in the player when its NOT playing i get this error:

ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved

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While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.united4freedom.net/mp3/honor_your_flag.mp3

The following error was encountered:

•Access Denied.
Access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed at this time. Please contact your service provider if you feel this is incorrect.

Your cache administrator is webmaster.



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Generated Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:51:46 GMT by sv24.byethost24.org (squid/2.7.STABLE9)

Then a few minutes later sometimes it lets me access it...
I've spent the whole day messing with this, and ALL permissions for the MP3 folder and files on server are 777. I'm very perplexed and would appreciate any help anyone can give me. I'm a Linux novice ...

Thank you,
Tom Martin
www.United4Freedom.net

[benstillman]

Originally Posted by silentdub

I am having trouble showing youtube videos. It always worked, but then just stopped, it shows the link but no picture.

When you arrow over the pic, it says "external embedding not available"

I installed the latest version and also installed the latest definitions.

I also deleted the previous youtube def and imported the latest from the 2.5 link.

http://www.mk1dubz.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4387

Example above:

I had the same problem. I updated to the newest version, then rebuilt the posts. Everything works again.