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

nJoy

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by davew

Hi Geek,

I'm guessing you missed my question, and I'd really appreciate some help - my forum just went "live" and I'd love to get this sorted

Pretty please!

Regards,
Dave

Hey Dave, based on what you have put, I would assume this is caused by a custom definition not working as expected. I can only provide support for the default ones so if indeed its a custom one, you'll need to ask the author. Otherwise let me know and ill be all over it

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by psychotica

Hi Geek

When i put the File cache on the AME doesn't works, it display the URL of the Movie with the title but the video and the container didn't appear.

The path is correct and the folder has CHMOD 777.

Thanks.

I doubt the problem is with the file cache (youll get warnings in the AME AdminCP if there is something suspect about your file cache).

I would lay money on the fact that you are trying to embed a video that has external embedding disabled. Check to make sure you can embed the video by looking at the destination page. Otherwise, paste the URL for me to check out.

HTHs

[davew]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Hey Dave, based on what you have put, I would assume this is caused by a custom definition not working as expected. I can only provide support for the default ones so if indeed its a custom one, you'll need to ask the author. Otherwise let me know and ill be all over it

Thanks very much for the response!

I have installed DJ's Definitions.. never thought to look there

Will update soon!

Cheers,
Dave

[whaase]

What code do I type into the vbadvanced BBcode module? I tried just the Youtube adress, it just displays the address.

I also tried [BBCODE=youtube]dqlbsiDL3A4[/BBCODE]

And it displays exactly that lol

Thanks

[bjhuang]

in newthread.php

<div><label for="cb_parseame"><input type="checkbox" name="parseame" value="1" id="cb_parseame" tabindex="1" checked="checked" />Automatically embed media (requires automatic parsing of links in text to be on).</label><input type="hidden" name="parseame_check" value="1" />

an ending div tag is missing.

[PtitLu]

I had a weird issue with this mod (and i am not the only one) : https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...26#post1761426

When AME is installed (and active), it breaks vbGoogleMapMe. When i deactivate AME, the map is ok. Does the developer has a brilliant idea to solve this ?

[4yBak]

how to fix URL for title "You Tube"? Now link for this title looks like http://mysitelink/youtubelink
An example: http://forum.ztu.edu.ua/www.youtube....?v=3FQv_eAxp3c or live demo http://forum.ztu.edu.ua/showthread.php?t=16096

[jonah1892]

just use this for youtube

however i have a problem on my site, when we use the normal link it converts it fine

however when a member posts something with the related tag in the URL like http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&h...eature=related

it just shows the link and not the embedded video

[Sooner95]

Ez install, works great!

[Dave Hybrid]

Why do so many coders not make their add-ons validate to w3 standards.

Any chance you will make this w3 compliant?