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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[wolfstream]

The youtube thing is probably because of multiple definitions. IIRC in the AME definitions, there is already an existing definition, and in the addon group (which is really good), there's another one.

As far as the non permission error, you may need to change the file permissions for /admincp/automediaembed_admin.php to world readable. Zip files often carry weird permission problems like this.

[uglyduck]

ok, I figured out why the youtube videos were showing up twice. I had two definition for youtube and needed to delete one.

Still can't run the conversion though. Oh well, works great for new ones.

EDIT: thanks wolfstream, I think I found the extra definition just as you posted. I opened up the permissions on automediaembed_admin.php and still no go.

[btotw]

This is gonna sound like a silly question...but...I expected AME to also parse gifs, jpgs, pngs...you know, images.

My install works great on all mp3s and videos...im good there...but I assumed that it would also work on regular old image files?

Unless I missed a setting somewhere...?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by btotw

This is gonna sound like a silly question...but...I expected AME to also parse gifs, jpgs, pngs...you know, images.

My install works great on all mp3s and videos...im good there...but I assumed that it would also work on regular old image files?

Unless I missed a setting somewhere...?

You can make it to work with images and almost any kind of media, but just keep in mind that the definitions have to be site specific. Just like you have to have a definition for YouTube to convert YouTube URLs, you would have to have a definition for wherever your hosting your image files.

[2k05gt]

Great App, Thanks so Much

[wickedstangs]

I have AME 2.0.2.zip should I upgrade to this version?

[KenD]

Very nice. Thanks for the mod.

[puppetmaster222]

Great stuff.. Thanks for the mod and hard work put into this!

Nothing worse than just looking at those links in a forum and having to leave the site to go watch it.. You're keeping users home where they belong

[slo_chewie]

Can this addon embed the HD version of Youtube videos by default?

[DragonBlade]

Greets all. We love this plugin, but it suddenly just stopped working for us after we moved to a new server. We can still put codes into something like [youtube] tags and itwill work, but it doesn't seem to want to transform the URLs anymore.

If anyone could point me in the right direction to what to look for, I'd appreciate it.