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

[ArnyVee]

Mine is still not working for quite some time.

Old embeds work, but new ones I'm getting this.....

<!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: ame_output -->
<div style="display: none;" id="ame_noshow_post_1241917615_3">
<a href="" title="YouTube" target="_blank">YouTube</a>
</div>
<div style="display: inline;" id="ame_doshow_post_1241917615_3">
<!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: ame_container -->
<div align="center">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" width="425" style="margin:10px 0">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="2" style="text-align:center">
<a href="" title="YouTube" target="_blank">YouTube</a>
</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="panelsurround" align="center">
<object width="425" height="350">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CGTVRbpAuRo&start="></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CGTVRbpAuRo&start=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent"></embed></object>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div>
<!-- END TEMPLATE: ame_container -->
</div>
<!-- END TEMPLATE: ame_output -->

....any suggested fixes for this? Pretty please!

[Saviour]

ArnyVee...

In the Admin Control Panel, vbulletin options/General settings...

Turn off Add Template Name in HTML Comments.

[SnapOff Racing]

Never worked for me on 3.8.2 until I disabled the "extract destination data" option...weird.

on a different note, how do I make the videos show up aligned to the left instead of centered?

[EagleNick]

Originally Posted by SnapOff Racing

Never worked for me on 3.8.2 until I disabled the "extract destination data" option...weird.

THANK YOU - this resolved my problem as well.

Originally Posted by SnapOff Racing

on a different note, how do I make the videos show up aligned to the left instead of centered?

In the ame_container template, find this code and remove the bit in red:

<td class="panelsurround" align="center">

That should do it. If not, replace center with left.

[SnapOff Racing]

Originally Posted by EagleNick

THANK YOU - this resolved my problem as well.

In the ame_container template, find this code and remove the bit in red:

<td class="panelsurround" align="center">

That should do it. If not, replace center with left.

you're welcome.


i tried removing the code and replacing center with left, neither worked

[ArnyVee]

Originally Posted by Saviour

ArnyVee...

In the Admin Control Panel, vbulletin options/General settings...

Turn off Add Template Name in HTML Comments.

Didn't work.

Now, I get this when I post the link URL.....

http://www.waltdisneyboards.com/redirect-to/?redirect=http%3A%2F%2F%3Cdiv+style%3D%22display%3A+none%3B%22+id%3D%22ame_noshow_post_1241998405_3%22%3E%3Cbr+%2F%3E%3Ca%20href=%22%22%20title=%22YouTube%22%20target=%22_blank%22%3EYouTube%3C/a%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cdiv%20style=%22display:%20inline;%22%20id=%22ame_doshow_post_1241998405_3%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cdiv%20align=%22center%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ctable%20class=%22tborder%22%20cellpadding=%226%22%20cellspacing=%221%22%20width=%22425%22%20style=%22margin:10px%200%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cthead%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ctr%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ctd%20class=%22tcat%22%20colspan=%222%22%20style=%22text-align:center%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ca%20href=%22%22%20title=%22YouTube%22%20target=%22_blank%22%3EYouTube%3C/a%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/td%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/tr%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/thead%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ctbody%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ctr%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ctd%20class=%22panelsurround%22%20align=%22center%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cobject%20width=%22425%22%20height=%22350%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cparam%20name=%22movie%22%20value=%22http://www.youtube.com/v/-nQtRSHKDpg&start=%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cparam%20name=%22allowFullScreen%22%20value=%22true%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cembed%20src=%22http://www.youtube.com/v/-nQtRSHKDpg&start=%22%20type=%22application/x-shockwave-flash%22%20allowfullscreen=%22true%22%20width=%22425%22%20height=%22350%22%20wmode=%22transparent%22%3E%3C/embed%3E%3C/object%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/td%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/tr%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/tbody%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/table%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/div%3E

Originally Posted by SnapOff Racing

Never worked for me on 3.8.2 until I disabled the "extract destination data" option...weird.

Tried this as well. Still getting this.

http://www.waltdisneyboards.com/redirect-to/?redirect=http%3A%2F%2F%3Cdiv+style%3D%22display%3A+none%3B%22+id%3D%22ame_noshow_post_1241998565_3%22%3E%3Cbr+%2F%3E%3Ca%20href=%22%22%20title=%22YouTube%22%20target=%22_blank%22%3EYouTube%3C/a%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cdiv%20style=%22display:%20inline;%22%20id=%22ame_doshow_post_1241998565_3%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cdiv%20align=%22center%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ctable%20class=%22tborder%22%20cellpadding=%226%22%20cellspacing=%221%22%20width=%22425%22%20style=%22margin:10px%200%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cthead%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ctr%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ctd%20class=%22tcat%22%20colspan=%222%22%20style=%22text-align:center%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ca%20href=%22%22%20title=%22YouTube%22%20target=%22_blank%22%3EYouTube%3C/a%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/td%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/tr%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/thead%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ctbody%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ctr%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ctd%20class=%22panelsurround%22%20align=%22center%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cobject%20width=%22425%22%20height=%22350%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cparam%20name=%22movie%22%20value=%22http://www.youtube.com/v/-nQtRSHKDpg&start=%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cparam%20name=%22allowFullScreen%22%20value=%22true%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cembed%20src=%22http://www.youtube.com/v/-nQtRSHKDpg&start=%22%20type=%22application/x-shockwave-flash%22%20allowfullscreen=%22true%22%20width=%22425%22%20height=%22350%22%20wmode=%22transparent%22%3E%3C/embed%3E%3C/object%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/td%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/tr%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/tbody%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/table%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/div%3E

Then, I tried to put the "Add Template Name in HTML Comments" back to "YES" and got this again......

http://www.waltdisneyboards.com/redirect-to/?redirect=http%3A%2F%2F%3C%21--+BEGIN+TEMPLATE%3A+ame_output+--%3E%3Cbr+%2F%3E%3Cdiv%20style=%22display:%20none;%22%20id=%22ame_noshow_post_1241998654_3%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ca%20href=%22%22%20title=%22YouTube%22%20target=%22_blank%22%3EYouTube%3C/a%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cdiv%20style=%22display:%20inline;%22%20id=%22ame_doshow_post_1241998654_3%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C!--%20BEGIN%20TEMPLATE:%20ame_container%20--%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cdiv%20align=%22center%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ctable%20class=%22tborder%22%20cellpadding=%226%22%20cellspacing=%221%22%20width=%22425%22%20style=%22margin:10px%200%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cthead%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ctr%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ctd%20class=%22tcat%22%20colspan=%222%22%20style=%22text-align:center%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ca%20href=%22%22%20title=%22YouTube%22%20target=%22_blank%22%3EYouTube%3C/a%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/td%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/tr%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/thead%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ctbody%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ctr%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ctd%20class=%22panelsurround%22%20align=%22center%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cobject%20width=%22425%22%20height=%22350%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cparam%20name=%22movie%22%20value=%22http://www.youtube.com/v/-nQtRSHKDpg&start=%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cparam%20name=%22allowFullScreen%22%20value=%22true%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cembed%20src=%22http://www.youtube.com/v/-nQtRSHKDpg&start=%22%20type=%22application/x-shockwave-flash%22%20allowfullscreen=%22true%22%20width=%22425%22%20height=%22350%22%20wmode=%22transparent%22%3E%3C/embed%3E%3C/object%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/td%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/tr%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/tbody%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/table%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C!--%20END%20TEMPLATE:%20ame_container%20--%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C!--%20END%20TEMPLATE:%20ame_output%20--%3E

Yikes, this is not fun

[EagleNick]

Originally Posted by SnapOff Racing

you're welcome.


i tried removing the code and replacing center with left, neither worked

Hmm... try removing the align="center" from this line which is in the very beginning of the template:

<div align="center">

[ArnyVee]

Originally Posted by EagleNick

Hmm... try removing the align="center" from this line which is in the very beginning of the template:

<div align="center">

This is from DJ's add-on thread.....

How do I align the videos to the left or right, instead of having it aligned centered in posts?

Answer: To align the video to the left or right instead of having it centered, change your Container HTML: Admin CP >>> AMECP >>> Settings >>> Container HTML >>> Open. Look for this line of code

<div align="center">

and change "center" to "left" or "right".

Hopefully this works for you and then with that "good karma" thing I can get an answer to my issues :up:

[The Geek]

Hey Arny, I know you've had this problem for awhile, but I really don't know what the issue is. I suspect it is a conflict with another mod as it is taking the HTML output from AME and transforming all the HTML into entities. In other words, instead of your browser getting:
<div align="center">
your browser is getting
&lt;div align=&quote;center&quote;&gt;

There isn't anything in AME that would do that, so again I suspect a conflict with another hack. Another thing that would point to another hack is the odd behaviour you get doing things like turning template names on/off. That is pretty odd. Normally I would offer to log in and try to resolve, however I simply lack any time to right now. I hope the above may give you some indication on how to resolve the problem though

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by SnapOff Racing

Never worked for me on 3.8.2 until I disabled the "extract destination data" option...weird.


on a different note, how do I make the videos show up aligned to the left instead of centered?

If your server doesn't support ccurl or fopen, you MUST turn off the extraction option because one of those 2 functions are needed for extracting info from other sites. The good news is that extracting isn't a necessity, however a few definitions out there and a couple minor features do require it to be on.