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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[BirdOPrey5]

I know you're getting tired of this but there is 1 more way I tried that is working for me...

http://[ecximg2]+\.[images-]*amazon\.[coma]+/images/I/([\w.]+)[.jpg]

or

http://[ecximg2]+\.[images-]*amazon\.[coma]+/images/I/([\w\.]+)[.jpg]

The problem is the "period" in the image: 51A1Zvu3cVL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

On some servers (like mine) it works fine, on others it doesn't. I've seen this problem with other definitions before, specifically the short youtu.be URL.

[ehd]

Holy ****

I just upgraded from 2.5.5 to 2.5.6 and now with the old Regexp it works again......

Thanks again for your help and verystrange behaviour of my vb,..

[BirdOPrey5]

Awesome... so maybe the people have trouble with my youtu.be definition was 2.5.5 too. Thanks for the update. :up:

[MentaL]

Originally Posted by boggseric

This is from the definitions thread but it should be in here as it requires a change to the mod.

This is not working for me even when posting new videos.

[Prorockz]

im used 3.8.7 version .

when im try to import product file i got sql error .

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.7:

Invalid SQL:
DELETE FROM automediaembed WHERE id in (2,3,4,6,7,10);

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number : 2006
Request Date : Saturday, July 2nd 2011 @ 02:08:59 PM
Error Date : Saturday, July 2nd 2011 @ 02:10:03 PM

[BirdOPrey5]

For those still looking for a youtu.be short URL solution I have released a mod that will auto convert the short URLs to the FULL URLs to allow AME to process them as normal:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=267450

[DaffyDuck]

For some reason it's not working for me - after installation, pasting a YouTube or Vimeo video into a new post or new reply, just results in a post or reply with the URL displayed, but no embedded video.

FYI - running vB 4.1.5 as well as Marco's Enhanced FCKE editor. Any known issues with that combo?

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by DaffyDuck

For some reason it's not working for me - after installation, pasting a YouTube or Vimeo video into a new post or new reply, just results in a post or reply with the URL displayed, but no embedded video.

FYI - running vB 4.1.5 as well as Marco's Enhanced FCKE editor. Any known issues with that combo?

Because this is only for vBulletin 3.8.x.

[navjotjsingh]

How to use Youtube's new embed codes here? This still uses the old object tags. Definitions for that?

[Spinball]

Went to install this product on AVForums.com 3.8.2

Importing Product, Please Wait...

[:]

The page never finished loading and the MySAL server crashed.
Hardly surprising since it adds a field to the post table. Why on earth would it do that? We have over 12 million posts. No wonder it crashed the server.

I would suggest that a note during install to say it alters the post table would be essential.

[Edit] - ok, my host brought the server back and I installed again and it's fine (with the DJ's xml imported)

Vimeo videos aren't working, though.
e.g. http://vimeo.com/28561610]The