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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[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by slo_chewie

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

Not by default. The add on in the link will convert the HD/HQ links, if you know how to do that. But the way YouTube has confgured their HD videos, there's no way to just have AME guess which is which. You have to post the link to the HD vid.

Originally Posted by 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.

Did you try re-installing yet?

[cory_booth]

I have to re-enforce some the the posts about slow-downs when making a new thread.

I have done exhaustive research and can firmly state that while AME is a great idea, whenever it is active and a user creates a new thread (not a reply) the site takes nearly 30 seconds to refresh...

With AME simply disabled via plugin interface and all other plugins active, the refresh is only 1-2 seconds.

I haven't read through the entire AME forum yet to see if there is a solution? But I am running the latest version and I have been using it for a while. This is why it took me so long to diagnose the problem. I kept looking at plugins I installed recently, not the AME (which I had for a while)....

I do have the FULL list of AME plugins installed, not sure if that a problem oh....
And I am also noticing it more on a government network than a civilian one.

Perhaps the blocking of YouTube and the rest helps create this bottle neck?

Would this happen even on a non-AME post (i.e. text only) - I mean to be honest, I rarely need to benifits of AME as my users don't normally post video and things, but I saw this slow down when simply typing "Testing 12345678"....

When I disabled....

Gone....

Let me add that I am using VBOptimizer and XCache as well....
Oh, and I - ofcourse - enabled any AME optimizations (caching) as well...

[Xencored]

Hi geek!

Any idea whats going on here bro
Woke up one day (changed nothing) and all of my videos /streaming

is like this (inc 2 pics)


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I have 100s of videos and there all like this any idea whats going and how to fix it?
Thanks

[soash]

I want to play mp3 files stored on my server.

Installed as instructed - linked to the file - the mp3 player comes up in the post, but it doesn't play.

Do I have to store my files in a particular way??

[Chadi]

Feature Request:
*************

Jquery implementation (lightbox)

http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/...ightbox-clone/

Really nice

[Xencored]

Originally Posted by Chadi

Feature Request:
*************

Jquery implementation (lightbox)

http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/...ightbox-clone/

Really nice

Yea thats so nice ^^

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by animemike

Yea thats so nice ^^

Am I the only one who doesn't really like the idea of clicking a thumbnail to watch a video? I mean I like lightbox when it comes to enlarging images and opening info and stuff. But, it just seems to me the point of embedding videos is so you don't have to click on anything other then play. Embedded video = 1 click. Lightbox Video = 2 clicks. Just my thoughts on it.

[Finster]

Jedi,

ExposureRoom.com displays HD videos the best, any way to add that? The problem is a single url shows 3 different sizes of the same HD video, with the middle one being the best.

[Chadi]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Am I the only one who doesn't really like the idea of clicking a thumbnail to watch a video? I mean I like lightbox when it comes to enlarging images and opening info and stuff. But, it just seems to me the point of embedding videos is so you don't have to click on anything other then play. Embedded video = 1 click. Lightbox Video = 2 clicks. Just my thoughts on it.

Lightbox is nicer when the "lights are off" and you have full focus on the video. Better view

[Xencored]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Am I the only one who doesn't really like the idea of clicking a thumbnail to watch a video? I mean I like lightbox when it comes to enlarging images and opening info and stuff. But, it just seems to me the point of embedding videos is so you don't have to click on anything other then play. Embedded video = 1 click. Lightbox Video = 2 clicks. Just my thoughts on it.

Hmm now you say that i see your point
I guess this would be good for posts with alot of videos on it (say 4+)

makes it look nice and tidy imo