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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[simonaB]

Hello everyone, i wont know if this mod is compatible with Zoint Social Network, becouse i have installed both, but this mod is not working.
Thank.

[sperry]

I've got what I hope is a minor feature request:

Is it possible to have the mod obey the "Show Images" flag from the UserCP->Thread Display Options->Visible Post Elements when it comes to the display of the embedded video?

Instead of displaying the embedded player, just display the title link to the video alone so users who have opted not to show inline images in posts don't have the inline embedded player displaying a still from the movie.

[stardotstar]

G'day, I have encountered a problem after installing vbBlog:

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.2:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE blog_text SET ame_flag=0 WHERE blogtextid = 0;

MySQL Error   : Unknown column 'ame_flag' in 'field list'
Error Number  : 1054
Request Date  : Friday, May 1st 2009 @ 04:27:47 PM
Error Date    : Friday, May 1st 2009 @ 04:27:48 PM
Script        : http://www.archeli.com.au/forums/blog_post.php?do=updateblog&blogid=
Referrer      : http://www.archeli.com.au/forums/blog_post.php?do=newblog
IP Address    : *************
Username      : **********
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.60

It has been noticed and posted on vbulletin.com here:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=306835

I thought i'd note it here so we could work out the solution - I doubt it is very complex to solve; apologies if this has been noted - I don't have time to wade back further than 5 pages; please point if you know the answer.

I'll post the fix back to vb.com when we know more.

Thanks for a great mod!

Will


UPDATE: I have just seen this:

AME vbBlog entries and comments  	
Yes No

this indicates that there should not be a problem when using vBBlog - and I have also confirmed that the blog entry is created despite generating that error. Perhaps there is some extra config that I need to do for vbBlog integration?


SOLVED: by uninstalling and reinstalling AME.

[nymyth]

not sure if this has been asked (because I cant really do a search for flv):

Can this play .flv files??

[beishe8]

Does anyone know that What is the correct value?

[wolfstream]

Oy Vey
It REALLY shouldn't be that complicated to add this and make it work.

Does not work out of the box on a default 3.8.2 system.

[ZomgStuff]

Is there a reason why AME won't show up in ADMIN CP in the navbar?

Edit:

I got it working, had to uninstall old version then re-import XML.

[fly]

Originally Posted by cad2go

Wow! This mod just gets better and better:up:

So replace in ame_output template

<div style="display: none;" id="ame_noshow_$ameinfo[id_tag]">
        <a href="$ameinfo[url]" title="$ameinfo[title]" target="_blank">$ameinfo[title]</a>
</div>
<div style="display: inline;" id="ame_doshow_$ameinfo[id_tag]">
$ame_results
</div>

with something like

<a href="$ameinfo[url]" title="$ameinfo[title]" target="_blank">$ameinfo[title]</a>

Basically! I'll give it a go! Cheers

PERFECT!

You rock. Thanks for this good sir!

[pavpavpav]

fixed.

[ncangler]

Installed on one vBulletin site and it works great. I just tried to install it on another and I am getting warnings like the one below when I try to convert the posts. I saw other posts about making sure all the files were transferred and into the right places. They are in the correct directories and all the files were uploaded. I used my ftp program in the "Auto" mode. Should the files be ASCII or Binary only? I also checked that the cache permissions were set to 777. Any other ideas why I would get this error?

post 122436: 
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