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]

Sounds like you have a mod conflict.

[Mutt]

Originally Posted by Gladhatter

Times like that I start looking for how I used to drop the ball 20 years ago when I believed hackers and malware and root kits and such did not exist.

You may wish to remove the remote code that some one has on your computer and you will see great joy.

I think you misunderstood me. on some posts when you click edit, it skips the AJAX quick edit & goes straight to the advanced editor. it's got nothing to do with malware.

I'm going to go through and toggle various products off till i find the conflict. thanks guys. just wanted to ask if it was normal & some thing I needed to deal with. now that I know it's not, i'll go find out what I broke.

thanks again

[unicorn2433]

Okay I am probably missing something really simple here.
When I try and use the embed link from say you tube the embeded stuff shows up and not the video.
This shows :
< object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0QPEzBaVRdw&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0QPEzBaVRdw&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object >

[adoxtater]

Originally Posted by unicorn2433

Okay I am probably missing something really simple here.
When I try and use the embed link from say you tube the embeded stuff shows up and not the video.
This shows :
< object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0QPEzBaVRdw&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0QPEzBaVRdw&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object >

I'm having something similar happen. I'm seeing code displayed similar to that (but not quite as MUCH as you have), plus its duplicating the videos.... WEIRD. Check it out here:

http://shredguitars.com/showpost.php...51&postcount=1

Anyone have any ideas? This is horrible looking. AME used to work fine, until I upgraded to the laest AME version. Then something went south somewhere

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by adoxtater

I'm having something similar happen. I'm seeing code displayed similar to that (but not quite as MUCH as you have), plus its duplicating the videos.... WEIRD. Check it out here:

http://shredguitars.com/showpost.php...51&postcount=1

Anyone have any ideas? This is horrible looking. AME used to work fine, until I upgraded to the laest AME version. Then something went south somewhere

You have two YouTube definitions. You need to delete the default set, then edit the post.

[NeverBored]

Is there any fairly easy way to separate the ame output from the post? For example if I want the video/s to always display at the beginning of the post.

[RL714]

Okay I am probably missing something really simple here.
When I try and use the embed link from say you tube the embeded stuff shows up and not the video.
This shows :
< object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0QPEzBaVRdw&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0QPEzBaVRdw&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object >

same problem!
my youtube is working fine, but the other doesnt, like dailymotion, google video etc..

[Isaac Brody]

What is a reasonable amount of time for this to take to install on a forum with over 1.5 million posts, 46,000 members, and about 160,000 threads.

It has been going for about three hours now with this message:

Adding index to post table. Please standy by.... this bit can take a few...

What will happen if I stop the installation?

The board still seems to be moving along fine.

Thanks.

[punchbowl]

Is there a way to exclude it for certain styles e.g. show youtube links on a mobile style but full embedding in the default style?

I know I have a replacement variable for images in my mobile style. Is there something similar for ame tags?

[MotMann]

How autom. play Youtube HQ Videos in bigger size?

(Sorry, but the searchengine with HQ still not working here )