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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[WreckRman2]

For some reason my youtube links aren't working anymore... anyone else notice this?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by IndyWebDesign

For some reason my youtube links aren't working anymore... anyone else notice this?

Could you post an example?

Originally Posted by Finster

DJ, We did convert over to 2.5...after some fiddling, a web person who actually knows what they are doing compared to me got pretty much all the previous GoldBrick media tags to convert.

Is there a way for this to NOT grab the name of the video file sharing site and auto-add it to the video title name? Or better yet, substitute in a selected name added to the video title? I bet 500 downloaders want 500 different things! lol

Instead of getting the Dreaded blue M of death thumbnail, now all the videos have screengrab stills. Finally! lol.

You ARE the strongest link!

Extraction pulls the titles of the videos. However, a good chunk of the definitions in require the extraction to be on in order to work. What you can do is change the HTML of the title in the container template or create a new template for your videos.

[WreckRman2]

Originally Posted by IndyWebDesign

For some reason my youtube links aren't working anymore... anyone else notice this?

Sorry I figured out the problem was I somehow uninstalled flash player. Don't know how the heck that happened but it works now.

[Gladhatter]

Thanks for bringing up the single quote DJ. I had a heck of time figuring that one out as well.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Gladhatter

Thanks for bringing up the single quote DJ. I had a heck of time figuring that one out as well.

Not sure what you mean, I went through the example DJ sent me and it wasn't the apostrophes. It was just a tricky page to extract the right data needed. If there is another example, send it to me and Ill look when I can.

[Gladhatter]

Sorry Geek, a I write so poorly to begin with, know next to nothing about coding or your work out side that I love it.

My problem now solved and also DJ in another post suggested a simple regex that would have nearly surely cured it as well was hosting on my local server and an example of the problem link was like: http://www.gladhatter.com/gladmusic/what's_myfav_song I first filled in spaces with %20 and then took them out and added undersores and then took them out and still no work. Finally I took out the <'> in the word "what's" and it picked it up and worked fine. Then I learn that in the set of code or what ever is is called had the <'> been added to the trim or ignore or what ever that module of it is called then it would have likely not been a problem at all.

My coder set mine up for me and addmited he did not know much about the regex lib and would have to had studied it more to address all my concerns. He is extremly qualifed coder in the area's he works in however and is quite busy building some huge mods for the VBgallery we have installed and I did not wish to disturb him further from it and 6 other advanced coding projects we have him assigned to.

So now that you are her and I have not yet found the sugar that DJ requires in his tea or coffee to get this one ,,,,And again the coder is flooded with 6 huge projects, and I am dying for one more site to work as it is not on local server and all my attempts and hours or work to make it were in vein would you consider adding or showing me what to add to make: http://www.wimp.com/farylsmith work. Please if you will as well admire the talent of this young gal that does not have any musicical interest that I would listen to but has talent that would make anyone wish her well.

Thank and appologies in advance for the slightly ot.

[The Geek]

Thanks Glad, DJ gave some other examples and I was able to resolve the issue for the next release. Since its rare and Im out of town for a couple days, I'm holding off the fix till then.

Thanks again

[Gladhatter]

Pleasure is mine and while most of my forum is dedicated to the users as well as the AME portion, I think it is the part I truely cherish. I thank you for this code. Not sure if I sent you anything from Paypal as I have others but you can look for it now or again if I did or did not.

[Yellow Slider]

Works great,

Can you please tell me how can I have wider youtube videos in posts?
here is an example

http://www.musclemecca.com/showthrea...bs-41708.html?

The video is wider then the regular videos I have in my board from youtube, why is that?

Thanks.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Yellow Slider

Works great,

Can you please tell me how can I have wider youtube videos in posts?
here is an example

http://www.musclemecca.com/showthrea...bs-41708.html?

The video is wider then the regular videos I have in my board from youtube, why is that?

Thanks.

Videos in 2.5 are set globally in your AME CP >>> Settings per region. If you only want a particular site's videos set at different dimensions, you would edit the Replacement HTML for the individual definition.