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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[baher]

hi
everything installed and seems OK! but the media icon doesn't appear on the editor !!
Thanks

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by baher

hi
everything installed and seems OK! but the media icon doesn't appear on the editor !!
Thanks

Oh okay, well, there is no media icon.

AME parses the URL automatically. There's nothing for users to do other then post a link. They don't even have to know the media will embed. AME handles all that for them. It's kinda the point of the modification. AME takes away ever having to bother with BBCode. It doesn't just take out one or two steps, it takes out every step and does it all for you.

[baher]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Oh okay, well, there is no media icon.

AME parses the URL automatically. There's nothing for users to do other then post a link. They don't even have to know the media will embed. AME handles all that for them. It's kinda the point of the modification. AME takes away ever having to bother with BBCode. It doesn't just take out one or two steps, it takes out every step and does it all for you.

well,
but we have a media icon ,uploaded to the forum/image ??

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by baher

well,
but we have a media icon ,uploaded to the forum/image ??

That's a "nomedia" icon. It's for definitions that detect for when a video will not embed and displays the image next to a plain text link.

After all, what do you need a button for, when the link converts all on it's own?

[BirdOPrey5]

Speaking of the "no media" icon is there something else I need to do to get that to work? I've never seen that icon come up even though people link to videos that say "embedding has been disabled by request." ?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Speaking of the "no media" icon is there something else I need to do to get that to work? I've never seen that icon come up even though people link to videos that say "embedding has been disabled by request." ?

Only works if the definition for a specific site is designed to check for validation. YouTube was like that for time, before people starting having trouble with it always failing validation. I generally don't design defs to check for that unless it's really necessary. I had to do that for Flickr, if I remember correctly.

[BirdOPrey5]

Oh OK, I thought the YouTube definition was compatible with this. No biggie.

Thanks.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Oh OK, I thought the YouTube definition was compatible with this. No biggie.

Thanks.

Oh, it's fine with this. What I was saying was that when The Geek first released validation, he did it with the YouTube def, but it didn't work right with YouTube, so we just blanked the validation field out.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by baher

well,
but we have a media icon ,uploaded to the forum/image ??

I might have confused you when I said I'd reply in "the" thread. I really didn't specify which thread. Sorry about that. The question I asked over in the other thread was have you checked the trouble shooting guide I posted on the first page of media definitions to make sure everything that could be done was done?

[gsmlover4u]

not working 3.8.6
nothing to display