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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[sailnet]

this mod does not work with the android or iphone apps sold by vbulletin. has anyone tacked this problem - the code displayed for a link to a youtube video seems to have a problem right at the end of the link and displays (ame?) non underlined after the link.

has anyone tried to fix this problem?

I'm running 3.8.4

[emdee]

hi

not able to embed videos, (youtube for example), unless im using [ame] .... [/ ame] bb code.

what am i doing wrong?

im running version 3.8.4

[seanadl]

Something odd has happened. I've had this mod working on my forum for a number of months now. I had to use vbulletins internal "rebuild the post cache". Ever since doing that some posts in the forum which contained media are either showing blank or the videos that are embedded within them while everything else does.

The tags are still there. If i go to edit an affected post and then re-save the videos appear again.

I'm not sure what has happened. Is there an easy way to fix this which doesn't involve me trawling through the forum and manually editing broken posts as and when i see them?

[ehd]

Please try this:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...99#post1796799

[basketmen]

Hi guys, i already searching in this thread and other threads, but still cant found it :

the url using https is not embeding, for example :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6s5l2PVvug


currently google and youtube are using secure urls (https) for they members


please try in your forum and share solution if you have

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by basketmen

Hi guys, i already searching in this thread and other threads, but still cant found it :

the url using https is not embeding, for example :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6s5l2PVvug


currently google and youtube are using secure urls (https) for they members


please try in your forum and share solution if you have

I'm logged into Youtube and am not having any https URLs... that said it should be a fairly simple fix...

What do you have in the Regular expression box for the YouTube definition?

If it starts with http:// just change it to https*:// and that should work with both http and https links.

[Dark_Sirius]

This is an issue with Vimeo also... they are moving over to all https and AME won't embed the https. Also, AME won't embed youtube vids that are not of this format:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MOlGyeE6ps

If it has anything like below, such as &feature, or &related, they won't embed. They have to be the 'long link' as shown above.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MOlG...eature=g-all-u

[jl255]

indeed, any solution for https youtube links???

if i removed AME now, will all my past youtube videos stop displaying too?

[ChiNa]

Jl255, Well yes your vides will not show up! Only the link will display! But not the videos!

But have you seen this link, supports other sites, which I installed last night on my site, its amazing! Its totally the best and my favorit ADDON so far Check it out: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...&highlight=ame

If you wanted to remove it then, You will need have another Addon if you want your videos to show and not edit them all again! Else you will have to use a BBCODE, and edit each and every post again! Here is a link to a full Youtube BBCODE embed:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=216048

There is one more addon that you will have to edit some of your files too, If I find it, I will send it to you!

But if you want my advice, dont delete the AME Embedder, its not using any memory or space! Only if you have the CACHE enabled!

[BirdOPrey5]

Can someone please post a URL of an "https" youtube link you are trying to embed? I can't find any.