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

[Traxdata]

fantastic idea! great hack!

whats about msn video, aol video, vh1, mtv, billboard or musicbrigade?

[Dannyloski]

chadi, you can edit the way the Box looks in any way you want, to edit the Box or part of it go here ...

AdminCP > AME CP > Settings > Container HTML

The Open is for the Top part and the place where the Video will be displayed, the Close contains the Closing HTML for the Video's Box.

[Mr. Hoddz]

I have installed but don't see how it would work.
Do I have to wrap tags around the UID of the video or something? Have tried many things and can't get anything.

It is all enabled but doesn't seem to make the video a video.

[Doctor Death]

Fabulous Mod. Installed and harvested two years of data and formatted all media perfectly.

Cudos as well to contributing developers... will come back often to find additional plugins.

Thanks thanks thanks!

Doc

www.ddsog.com

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Mr. Hoddz

I have installed but don't see how it would work.
Do I have to wrap tags around the UID of the video or something? Have tried many things and can't get anything.

It is all enabled but doesn't seem to make the video a video.

You don't have to wrap anything. It auto converts the URLs without having to add tags everytime. Did you try a YouTube video yet?

[iogames]

Wow! VH1 or MTV?

[Dannyloski]

Originally Posted by Mr. Hoddz

I have installed but don't see how it would work.
Do I have to wrap tags around the UID of the video or something? Have tried many things and can't get anything.

It is all enabled but doesn't seem to make the video a video.

Digital Jedi explained it already. This Hack/Mod simply converts the Video's URL (as found in the Address Bar of your Browser) into the Actual Video that is suppose to be seen when you visit that link. There is no need to wrap any text or any code in any type of BBCode, etc. Simply copy the Video's URL from the Address Bar and paste it onto the Reply Box on your forums - its that easy! ... What links have you been trying that you say are not working?

Originally Posted by iogames

Wow! VH1 or MTV?

lol yeah, those would be nice, wouldn't they ... I'll have to check and see if they need the Extract Feature or not ... Plus I need RegExBuddy

[DieselMinded]

Guys Lets all get together on getting regEXbuddy for Danny Come on Lets Donate $5 ..... All at once We all want more links to Embed and are waiting for someone to step up here

Im not going to be the only one or i would just pay him for my board only as im sure most of you would also ,,, So I say we get together and Donate $5 to him

Whos With ME?

DM

[Dannyloski]

Yeah guys, I'm doing this cause I feel like this is a great Hack/Mod and has a lot of potential. I mean Im not gonna be charging to do the RegEx's for you guys, I am simply requesting that you guys buy the License so I can do them for you guys. Everyone will benefit from this in the end.

I can add support for the sites that you guys want, except those who need/require the Extract Feature from AME - I am still waiting on The Geek to explain to me in detail how to use it. I took a look at the way he did it for Yahoo & DailyMotion and I think I understand how it works, but the only way to know for sure is if I have RegExBuddy. I promise though that if I figure out how it works, then I'll add support for those other sites as well.

Its only $39.95 USD, its not like its the cost of a vB License ... I am not gonna buy it with my own money because quite frankly that's absurd in my eyes. I would be spending my money to add support for sites I dont really even need? That's kinda just stupid, if you ask me. The only site that I want to add is Break.com, but it requires the Extract Feature of AME so I guess that's an incentive for me to figure out how it works, right?

Well, if anyone wants to donate then you can do so by sending any amount of money to shop@talkjdm.com - that's my PayPal ... Once the goal has been reached of $39.95 USD, I'll purchase the license and start the codes, etc. If you feel like donating to me cause of the Sites I have added support for thus far, that's accepted too ...

Some people have already contacted me via PMs or Emails asking for my PayPal so that they can donate (I still havent received anything), but I just replied to those about 2 hours ago, so yeah. I also received a few PMs from people who are willing to buy the License completely themselves and also allow me to release the codes publicly - others want me to keep the codes private for them only (no response from either of these groups yet as well). I really would like to offer these for free to everyone, but whoever buys the License decides, I guess ...

[DieselMinded]

$12.45 On Its Way .... Rounded out my Pay Pal Balance THANKS