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

[quasan]

Originally Posted by SnapOff Racing

you're welcome.


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

thank you so much for your hint!

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by animemike

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

Well, I agree that it looks cool, and I can imagine it would be useful if you do a lot of those "Post a Video" threads. I'd just like to keep the option to display it as embedded for when you have a forum set up to post threads like this.

[Xencored]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Well, I agree that it looks cool, and I can imagine it would be useful if you do a lot of those "Post a Video" threads. I'd just like to keep the option to display it as embedded for when you have a forum set up to post threads like this.

Well first of mate "yu-Gi-oh! abridged" Hahah what a small world we have i know the dude who makes it all lives about 10 mins away from me and his wife comes to are Anime group meetings and allways going to town with me wife but anyway

Yea for a single post i do prefer the way it is now
But for posts like >> THIS << i think it would look great using the (lightbox code)

Mike

[mike2902]

According to Vb.com this is causing a data base error with vb blog 2.0.2 i just installed. Here is the error. Has this been address? Or do I have to unistall this product to make my blog work


Database error in vBulletin 3.8.2:
Invalid SQL:
UPDATE blog_text SET ame_flag=0 WHERE blogtextid = 0;
MySQL Error : Unknown column 'ame_flag' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Sunday, June 7th 2009 @ 11:57:53 PM
Error Date : Sunday, June 7th 2009 @ 11:57:54 PM
Script : http://hangin-out.net/blog_post.php?...ateblog&blogid=
Referrer : http://hangin-out.net/blog_post.php?do=newblog
IP Address : 76.211.5.170
Username : Admin
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 4.1.22-standard-log



I just unistalled the AME and the blog is working. So is there a version of this that will not interfere with vb blog 2.0.2 running on 3.8.2

[Digital Jedi]

When you installed AME, did you run the process to add blog functionality?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by animemike

Well first of mate "yu-Gi-oh! abridged" Hahah what a small world we have i know the dude who makes it all lives about 10 mins away from me and his wife comes to are Anime group meetings and allways going to town with me wife but anyway

Yea for a single post i do prefer the way it is now
But for posts like >> THIS << i think it would look great using the (lightbox code)

Mike

You know LK? Heh, yeah, he's something of an internet celebrity in Yu-Gi-Oh! circles. And even he will say, that's just as meaningless as it sounds. LOL. I really like his humor. The shot he took at Naruto: The Abridged Series was just brilliant. And I wish I had thought to Rick Roll my wife at my own wedding.

Agreed, it's something that would help for heavy threads. If it did happen it would be nice if it were an add-on where you could use it per video if need be.

EDIT: You do know that LK just recently imported his forum to a vBulletin forum? I've been expecting to see either him or one of his admins lurking the modifications section.

[Xencored]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

You know LK? Heh, yeah, he's something of an internet celebrity in Yu-Gi-Oh! circles. And even he will say, that's just as meaningless as it sounds. LOL. I really like his humor. The shot he took at Naruto: The Abridged Series was just brilliant. And I wish I had thought to Rick Roll my wife at my own wedding.

Agreed, it's something that would help for heavy threads. If it did happen it would be nice if it were an add-on where you could use it per video if need be.

EDIT: You do know that LK just recently imported his forum to a vBulletin forum? I've been expecting to see either him or one of his admins lurking the modifications section.

Yea agree and yea ive seen hes on vbulletin
am not a big yu-gi-oh fan but his stuff is funny^^

Lets hope for heavy threads it becomes a extra for this great mod

Cheers
Mike

[Chadi]

In regards to my lightbox suggestion on page 40, it would be a cool idea to have an on/off feature.

[andimac]

how do I embed an mp3 file into a post? I want the mp3 to play in the post. I can't figure how to get the mp3 to play in the post... is this even possible?

Newbie... Andi

[daihlo]

Hi all, any way to get this to work with this site
www.cagefilm.com

IS a normal FLV streaming site, but doesnt seem to work. Im not up enough on coding to work out how to do it.

Any help realy appreciated!

Thanks :-)