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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[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Phaedrus

Yes, exactly.

Mods don't carry a full content of an AdminCP folder, you don't want to overwrite the folder either.

Just open each then move contents into the folder matching it on your server.

Actually, moving contents into matching folders one at a time is precisly what you DO NOT want to do, as this can lead to mistakes and takes way longer. You DO want to OVERWRITE matching folders, as doing this adds the contents of one folder to another without deleting anything. Not to mention, it's the fastest most efficient way to do so.

[cooltechie]

Rebuild post cache removed videos. If I go back to edit the post, I can still see the video link there but shown as [ url ] http:// www. youtube. com [ /url ] (without spaces and with full video url).

[Jon Tolzien]

I am so embarrassed to ask this question. I want to do local hosting. I installed all of the files. Should i see a special icon to do local hosting. Or do i need to ftp the files on to my server. Or do just use the URL to my server files. Like i said i have looked and looked for the answer. Maybe it was right under my nose.

[Bisha]

My question is:

[Gladhatter]

Originally Posted by Jon Tolzien

I am so embarrassed to ask this question. I want to do local hosting. I installed all of the files. Should i see a special icon to do that. Or do i need to ftp on to my server. Or do just use the URL to my server files. Like i said i have looked and looked for the answer. Maybe it was right under my nose.

I am confused and embarrassed to answer you.

Do you have some music files on your local server now? If so have you created or do you have created AME tags for these file types on in your AME cpanel I guess it is called?

If you do and all is set up right you just paste the url to the song inside the post and it will play in AME player automatically.

I hope this is what you are looking for and it helps you.

[moreilly]

YouTube videos is just linking to the video, not displaying the video in the posts at my site. I just downloaded this mod today and downloaded the new definitions from Jedi in his mod.

Any clue what I forgot to do or I missed?

[jonah1892]

when i installed this on my 3.8 site it slowed it down immesnly

i tested it out by disabling the product for 2 days to see if the speed improved which it did, and as soon as i enabled the product it slowed right back down again

[Gladhatter]

Originally Posted by moreilly

YouTube videos is just linking to the video, not displaying the video in the posts at my site. I just downloaded this mod today and downloaded the new definitions from Jedi in his mod.

Any clue what I forgot to do or I missed?

Yes Sir/Madam, with out destructive but only constructive criticism, you have failed to make any kind of post as do so many myself included that can render you much help unless you engage someone to prod you to offer more.

You may wish to be more specific and note exactly what you have done, what you expected to happen that did not and what you have attempted to date to resolve it.

You may wish to post a screen shot of the problem and identify any unique situation you may have or set up.

Also what version of VBulletin you are running along with any outside or major add ons.

These are just thoughts that may help get you a proper diagnosis.

[moreilly]

Originally Posted by Gladhatter

Yes Sir/Madam, with out destructive but only constructive criticism, you have failed to make any kind of post as do so many myself included that can render you much help unless you engage someone to prod you to offer more.

You may wish to be more specific and note exactly what you have done, what you expected to happen that did not and what you have attempted to date to resolve it.

You may wish to post a screen shot of the problem and identify any unique situation you may have or set up.

Also what version of VBulletin you are running along with any outside or major add ons.

These are just thoughts that may help get you a proper diagnosis.

Outside of me not saying which vbulletin I run (3.7.3 patch level 1) what are you talking about of not being specific?

I installed both mods, no errors

I copy a link to a video I found at youtube, I then post a thread at my forums and paste the link, and it doesn't display the video, it just shows a link as I previously stated

[Gladhatter]

Originally Posted by jonah1892

when i installed this on my 3.8 site it slowed it down immesnly

i tested it out by disabling the product for 2 days to see if the speed improved which it did, and as soon as i enabled the product it slowed right back down again

Geek do you have any thoughts on this? My site at some point around the time I installed this ( but also installed a ton of other mods) and custom code came to a turtles crawl speed that they cannot idenify on the server side but reconize it as well.

Has anyone else noticed any of this?