Show Thread Enhancements - AME - Auto Media Embedding (youtube, Amazon, google, myspace, etc...)

From the inventors of Swiss Cheese and the Egg comes AME - The Automatic Media Embedding System.

Note that Version 2.0.0 can be found here

AME is derived from GAL 6 base code but instead of linking keywords, it converts URLs that users paste or enter in their posts into inline embedded video streams.

Big credit goes out to mfyvie for the original concept that jazzed me up enough to lift code that I have been working on to radically improve his fresh idea. Though the same goal, I have taken a totally different approach to his initial release. This mod is 100% steaming fresh code straight from the Geeks oven of love.

First... the overview

AME scans new and edited posts for pre-defined patterns of URLs (i.e. youtube's). If it finds a match, it swaps the url tag for an ame tag.
When a post get parsed for bbcode and an ame tag is found, instead of hammering away at the post with umpteen bbcodes, AME quietly figures out which pre-defined embedding should be placed there and... viola', you have a pretty little embedded video like this:

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This is significantly faster, has much lower overhead and is much easier to manage than loads of bbcodes or a than scanning every single post as the user views it to see if there are any conversions that need to be made.

Now for the bells and whistles

AME:

• is lightweight as it does all of her chores without the overhead of having 1 bbcode per pattern or trying to parse a post every single time it gets displayed with a bunch of patterns. This radically reduces overhead and speeds up the processing. The only time ame will kick in is after creating a new post or after editing an existing one (or if an ame tag is found in a post)
• is extensible. She allows you to add, edit, delete, import and export patterns. That way you can decide which services to support, how they should look and then share them with others!
• can extract the title (requires your server to allow url wrappers with fetch_contents)
• can extract embed code from sites whose URLs do not contain sufficient information to embed the video
• can rebuild your old posts to convert your 'other' mediaish tags into URL tags.
• can rebuild your old posts to convert URL tags into ame tags where needed
• can convert her codes BACK to url codes so you're not stuffed with a bunch of dead tags if you uninstall!
• won't uglify your site by having videos appear in quotes, php, code or html blocks (blech!)
• can be globally disabled
• can be excluded from forums
• can exclude usergroups
• can be toggled on/off per post
• would cook dinner for you if she had arms
• can wrap the output in a 'container' with original URL
• has a super comprehensive admincp help system. Yes, I actually took the time to add all the info you need into vB's admincp help system. If you ask a silly question in this thread that is addressed in the help system, you will be taunted.
• is fully phrased
• has hooks around integral operations so you can extend it

Add ons

AME comes configured with YouTube, Myspacetv, Google Video, Bolt, iFilm, Yahoo, Dailymotion, Amazon and MetaCafe Support built in. Since the amount of providers are always changing and most sites will only need a particular amount, AME has been designed with an import and export system to allow members to easily share formats with one another. In fact, the second post of this thread is updated periodically to relflect those add ons. Currently there are over 12 more additional formats contributed by AME users. Click here to see them.

Installation

• Upload the contents of the forums folder into your forums directory and import the product.xml file into your product manager.
• 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.

Troubleshooting

See this post on troubleshooting

A note about support and such

I have my plate pretty full with taking care of my commercial mods and the support that comes with them. Saying that, I will help when I can - but to be honest, I have ensured that there should be little to no support needed on this mod as it is very much self contained.
Please do not PM or post asking me to give you regexp's to support additional media streams. I built the system so that you can add your own providers as well as the ability to import and export them. If you still need a pattern but are not great with regular expressions (who is?) then I suggest getting RegExpBuddy. Although I am not expert at regular expressions, I did a quick start tutorial on AME regexps here if you want to check it out. I don't mind you guys asking amongst each other for these things, but just note that I will most likely not respond to the requests.

I will reserve the first couple of posts in this thread to periodically add user contributed patterns to import and for additional information (I hate mega long first post's in the release section). So check there for up to date information.

nJoy

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by silence88

hey dude all links work fine in IE, and all works fine in FF to. But sometimes when i click in FF on play it loads then wait 1-3 seconds and bam its at the end.

How come ?

FF is firefox
IE Internet eXplorer

and iv tried disable all other hacks (2) lol

Got me, works as expected here. THe code is the exact same that you would get by using their embed code. Maybe its something with your flash installation?

@popwich - yes, I updated the product.xml so it had the correct version. Nothing else had changed.

[silence88]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Got me, works as expected here. THe code is the exact same that you would get by using their embed code. Maybe its something with your flash installation?

Do you mean my flash version i got installed for the browser itself its the latest i got.

I tried the url & embed code, it shows up but it wont play (does not count foor all youtub vids). when you press on play it loads and you get to the end.

tx for reply

[wastemytime]

Originally Posted by The Geek

The only other suggestion I can give you is to disable all other hacks... then try it again. To me, it sounds like a conflict.

YES. It has a conflict with vbux/vbPlaza. I disabled vbPlaza and it worked. But i cant disable vbPlaza for it because its very popular...

[The Geek]

@Silence - that is what I assume. Not sure how the HTML could only partially stream so I have to assume that it is with the browser. Try snagging some embed code from a page youre having probs with, paste it into a standard html doc saved to your desktop and view it there. See if you get the same results.

@waste - Thats not a suprise. That system is ripe with bugs. Wish I could help you with it, but I cleansed it from my system (sad as it was a popular add on for one of my sites)

@all - Im off on my holidays now. I may bob in when I can (and if Mrs Geek allows!)

nJoy

[a1whs.com]

Originally Posted by The Geek

I cant reproduce this. It works fine. Furthermore, AME wouldnt doesnt do stuff like URL1 and URL2. It looks like some other mod you have installed.

Omg did you even understand the issue?

It said " Try posting this code"

and the code.

Omg ... Duuh it doesn't have url1 url2 i was trying to post that code on forum, try posting it will you on your forum with the mod.

Cheers

[joergh]

Great Hack Mr Geek, thank you!

i just installed 1.2 and noticed two things you may can think about in future versions.

1. All my seperate add ons were gone. It would be fine if the could stay after an update or include all add ons in your version

2. Also the amazon-ID was gone. maybe you could create a separate field so it will not be overwritten during update.

Thank you for your work!

joergh

[Extreme John]

Originally Posted by a1whs.com

Omg did you even understand the issue?

It said " Try posting this code"

and the code.

Omg ... Duuh it doesn't have url1 url2 i was trying to post that code on forum, try posting it will you on your forum with the mod.

Cheers

OMG did you even realize your giving a guy that creates and supports hacks for free a hard time? Either be patient, get over it or maybe, just maybe try being somewhat appreciative that someone like Geek does what he does and try to stay calm through this major life changing event. Jesus.

[mcgra]

Hi, this is probably not worth mentioning but after my shared hosting moved my website to a new server (same domain, new IP) I was unable to get into any threads (although we could still post new ones) until i disabled this hack.

Soon as i disabled everything returned to normal, i uninstalled then reinstalled and its back working like a charm again.

Just thought id mention that in case anyone comes across the same problem.

Other than that slight hiccup, this is a fantastic mod, im over the moon with it

[furst]

Originally Posted by Dannyloski

DOH! Damn, that makes me feel so dumb, how did I miss that, I looked at the thing like 100 times and didn't catch that ... Thanks!

Alright guys, so I know a lot of you want this one, so I cooked it up, thanks to The_Geek for helping me trouble shoot a little problem I was having, lol ... Enjoy Support for DivX/Stage6!

For some reason it's adding this little "middot;" thing to all of the titles when I embed from stage6. Any idea why that's happening?

"Stage6 · George Carlin"

[Carlos2]

Originally Posted by 4x4 Mecca

Ok, I've created one for photobucket videos! It works for me, I hope it works for all of you.
There is one for wmv files too.

PHOTOBUCKET removed because it has been updated here
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=254

What i have to do for working the wmv files addon?? i have to put it where?