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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[tanha]

working but plz inform me "How can we add other videos like metacafe and google videos?? "

[New-Age]

Hi all,

Thankyou for the addon however when I copy and paste embed code from YouTubbe /
It just shows the code when I try to post!

Am I doing something wrong?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by New-Age

Hi all,

Thankyou for the addon however when I copy and paste embed code from YouTubbe /
It just shows the code when I try to post!

Am I doing something wrong?

Dont paste the embed code, just paste a URL to the page.

Originally Posted by tanha

working but plz inform me "How can we add other videos like metacafe and google videos?? "

I think DJ may have made these (though Im not sure about Google as they changed their system quite substantially).

[New-Age]

Well , Well , Well , Well It was that easy!

Thankyou The Geek

A Good Addon !

[adnoid]

Installed and working on 3.8.1 - thanks!

Added information for those concerned about the time to set this up. We have over 3.5 million posts, so I tried this first on our backup forum and the install screen timed out due to (I believe) PHP settings. So I examined the setup and found the line that modified the post table

ALTER TABLE post ADD ame_flag TINYINT DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL

So I just ran this via mysql when the board was quiet, which took about 20 minutes, and then did the install which just skipped over this stage as it was already done and completed with no issues. I have done this for other modifications that alter the post table as well and have never had trouble.

[Saint_I_Am]

Why am I getting this error when I try to convert codes?

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /admincp/automediaembed_admin.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request

the permission of automediaembed_admin.php is 644

[beishe8]

Originally Posted by Saint_I_Am

Why am I getting this error when I try to convert codes?

I would like to know it too...
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...53#post1800353

[wildweaselmi]

Sorry for the lame question but I'm pretty new at vBulletin, vBlog and PhotoPost. This mod looks like what I'm looking for so I installed it but I have no idea on how to move forward after its been installed.

I have some video's (.mp4) that I would like to stream from vBlog.

I also have some music (.mp3) that I would like to stream from forum.

Any help is most appreciated and again sorry for such a stupid question. I thought after install there would be an option in the Advanced Text Editor to embed media but I don't see such an option.

I have read in several posts about using [ame] tags but I have no idea what these tags are for the different media type (especially local video, audio and youtube).

I did add the Definitions for Flash[.swf], Music [.mp3], quicktime [.mov] and [.wmv] (it appears youtube and amazon were already installed)

Any examples would be greatly appreciated.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by wildweaselmi

Sorry for the lame question but I'm pretty new at vBulletin, vBlog and PhotoPost. This mod looks like what I'm looking for so I installed it but I have no idea on how to move forward after its been installed.

I have some video's (.mp4) that I would like to stream from vBlog.

I also have some music (.mp3) that I would like to stream from forum.

Any help is most appreciated and again sorry for such a stupid question. I thought after install there would be an option in the Advanced Text Editor to embed media but I don't see such an option.

I have read in several posts about using [ame] tags but I have no idea what these tags are for the different media type (especially local video, audio and youtube).

I did add the Definitions for Flash[.swf], Music [.mp3], quicktime [.mov] and [.wmv] (it appears youtube and amazon were already installed)

Any examples would be greatly appreciated.

The mod is designed to parse (meaning, to convert) the URL of media into a video automatically. So once you have it configured to do what you want, all a user would have to is post the video and it would auto convert. No special buttons or actions required.

That said, it has to be setup to do that. If you added the Local Hosting definitions from my thread (as it appear you have) then this means that all anyone has to do is post the physical link location of a video and AME should parse it into embedded media. Just bear in mind that this won't work with attachments, because AME can't tell the difference between the different types of media in attachments. It distinguishes which type of file to parse based on the URL, and attachment URLs are all the same (yourdomain.com/attachment.php). You would need to upload the videos to your server and post the physical link to the video.

[uglyduck]

Originally Posted by Saint_I_Am

Why am I getting this error when I try to convert codes?

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /admincp/automediaembed_admin.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request

the permission of automediaembed_admin.php is 644

I am also experiencing this issue. In addition, when embedding a video (youtube), it's shows up twice, one on top of the other. Any ideas?

thanks