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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[moreilly]

Originally Posted by mattysheff

I've got the same problem with you tube videos not embedding.

Ive tried http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQx6b-6kYMQ

Its not changing the tags as they still show as [url] if I manuaaly change it to [ame] then the video embeds fine.

Yep, same with me. Out of curiosity, are the default youtube definitions that come with this mod the same as the other ones from DJ's media definitions?

I deleted the default ones, as per the instructions from Jedi, then uploaded the new ones. I am just wondering if this might have been the cause?

[Dream]

Geek (or anyone else), sorry to bother, but do I need to change the container width settings for YouTube HD to work? The container width seems to shrink the parsed HD/HQ ones... But how can I do it only for those videos?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Bisha

And why for some youtube link doesn't work but it shows the small icon?

Read the readme and faq post. Its because the publisher of the video has disabled embedding.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by shadowedsoul

First off, great mod it's working really well.

The only problem I'm having with it is this, on new posts it's not auto adding the ame tags, am I missing a setting somewhere?

I've done some searching on this but havn't found anything.

thanks for the great work!

Make sure you have all the files uploaded and that you have installed the product xml.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by ArnyVee

I am having issues (just started this morning)

That URL (http://www.youtube.com/v/dZZfuCJ970w) is not the correct format. In fact, if you follow that URL, it forwards you to a full screen version of a crowded house video. The default AME install wont transform that.

Ive been running vbSEO without a problem as I am sure others have done?

Are you sure you have uploaded all of the latest files?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by moreilly

Yep, same with me. Out of curiosity, are the default youtube definitions that come with this mod the same as the other ones from DJ's media definitions?

I deleted the default ones, as per the instructions from Jedi, then uploaded the new ones. I am just wondering if this might have been the cause?

Again, that URL works fine on a vanilla vB board with a vanilla AME 2.5.4

I'm not sure what the differences between DJ's definitions and the default one is. I just know that the above works on the default

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Dream

Geek (or anyone else), sorry to bother, but do I need to change the container width settings for YouTube HD to work? The container width seems to shrink the parsed HD/HQ ones... But how can I do it only for those videos?

Can you link to an example? I'm not sure if I follow you.

[tekguru]

Getting the same problem as some of the others, a YouTube link of:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk0xWm8PMGQ

Comes out as:

<div style="display: none;" id="ame_noshow_post_1234205464_7">
<a href="" title="YouTube" target="_blank">YouTube</a>
</div>
<div style="display: inline;" id="ame_doshow_post_1234205464_7">
<div align="center">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" width="425" style="margin:10px 0">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="2" style="text-align:center">
<a href="" title="YouTube" target="_blank">YouTube</a>
</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="panelsurround" align="center">
<object width="425" height="350">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zFj_i6HtebM&start="></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zFj_i6HtebM&start=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent"></embed></object>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div>
</div>

Any ideas?

[freni32]

I am receiving this following error on my forum with this mod, any suggestions on how to fix this?

Warning: include([path]/amecache/findonly.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/ame_bbcode.php on line 74

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '[path]/amecache/findonly.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in [path]/includes/ame_bbcode.php on line 74

[Dream]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Can you link to an example? I'm not sure if I follow you.

YouTube HD/HQ are wider, but the container setting of AME are 400xsomething and HQ/HD seems to be using those. I rather not link my forum here on org.