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From the creators of French and Toast comes a sweet and sticky enchanement to the New York Times best-seller: AME - Auto Media Embedding

AME 2.0 - The Embedder Strikes Back!

AME has won Mod of the Month for Spetember 08. Thanks!

Note that 2.5 Gold has been released. Click Here.

Discussions for AME 2.5 RC 1 start here

AME 2.0 is the next version of the "Mod of the Month" winning media embedder that:

• Allows user to simply 'paste' in a URL (i.e. a youtube link) without needing to know any special tags. However instead of displaying just the URL, it will show the media within the post
• is lightweight as it does all of her chores without the overhead of having 1 bbcode per pattern or trying to parse a post every single time it gets displayed with a bunch of patterns. AME radically reduces overhead and speeds up processing. The only time ame will kick in is after creating a new post or after editing an existing one (or if an ame tag is found)
• is extensible. She allows you to add, edit, delete, import and export patterns. That way you can decide which services to support, how they should look and then share them with others! At time of typing this, there are over 150 media sites that have been contributed by vBulletin.org members
• can extract the title (requires your server to allow url wrappers with fetch_contents)
• can extract embed code from sites whose URLs do not contain sufficient information to embed the video
• can rebuild your old posts to convert your 'other' mediaish tags into URL tags.
• can rebuild your old posts, blogs, comments, visitor and social group messages to convert URL tags into ame tags where needed
• can convert her codes BACK to url codes so you're not stuffed with a bunch of dead tags if you uninstall!
• won't uglify your site by having videos appear in quotes, php, code or html blocks (blech!)
• can be globally disabled
• can be excluded from forums
• can exclude usergroups
• can be toggled on/off per post, blog, comment, visitor and social group message
• would cook dinner for you if she had arms
• can wrap the output in a 'container' with original URL
• has a super comprehensive admincp help system. Yes, I actually took the bloody time to add all the info you need into vB's admincp help system. If you ask a silly question in this thread that is addressed in the help system, you will be taunted.
• is fully phrased
• has hooks around integral operations so you can extend it
• Supports embedding in vbBlog, Visitor Messages and Social Groups.
• Can be disabled in one or more of the following sections: Posts, vbBlog, Visitor Messages and/or Social Groups

Apart from the additional areas of support around vbBlog, Visitor Messages and Social Groups, little has changed about AME since version 1.0 released over a year ago. I cleaned up a few minor bugs, trimmed and updated the default definitions.

Which sites are supported?

At time of counting this, there are about 170 sites supported. But I have only included a few common standards as default (yahoo, youtube, myspace, google and Amazon). Why only these? AME was designed with its own import and export system that enables users to create or modify definitions and share them with the community. This keeps the system lightweight, customisable and saves us all from having to upgrade every time a media site changes their URL structure or if I add another site.

Check out the 'add ons' section of this post below to see availible add-ons.



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.

Big thanks goes out to all those in the community that have supported this mod. Especially Digital Jedi Who has created about 155 definitions for this system alone!

Change Log


2.0.2 - fixed added slashes in quote blocks (DoH!), vm advanced error and incrimented product version. You need to replace include/ame_bb_code.php and re-import the product-ame.xml to upgrade
2.0.1 - fixed missing backslashes in code blocks

2.5 Pre-Release information

Attached to this post is pre-release of version 2.5

2.5 is a pretty major upgrade from the 2.0 series and adds the following functionality to 2.0:

• New in Beta 3 - Validation ability. This will help prevent media being embedded that can not be embedded (i.e. youtube videos that the author has stipulated can not be shown off of youtube). This option requires the extraction option to be turned on and a valid validation regexp. I have included one in the default youtube version. When a video on you tube gets embedded, but the author doesnt allow embedding, a link (with icon) is shown instead.
• Ability to prevent non authorised usergroups from viewing (see Readme file in zip for more info)
• Usergroup permissions (edit usergroup to adjust edit/view permissions)
• Template driven system - uses templates now instead of 1 master replacement (see Readme file in zip for more info)
• Signatures supported
• Different sizes and template configurations for each supported zone (posts, blogs, groups, visitor messages and signatures)
• A couple new hooks (Mainly to support a future add on for AME media in profiles)
• Notfication system (similar to vB's to check for errors)
• Definition keys for easier updating of definitions and to use in templates
• File caching system which radically reduces processing
• And more that I cant think of off the top of my head!

Note that while previous definitions will work with the new system, they will not be sizeable by zone. Since DJ helped with the private beta testing, I am sure he will be releasing 2.5 versions of his definitions soon.

Please note that 2.5 is a pre-release so there will be issues. If you want more stability, use 2.x until this version becomes gold FWIW: The only items currently outstanding are to add some missing admincp help. The rest is working as intended as far as I can tell

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[bartek24m]

i have problem with this hack some of my video on my you tube are show as

"we're sorry, this video is no longer avaiable"
although the video is avaiablle on embed form


do you know why is it ?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by bartek24m

i have problem with this hack some of my video on my you tube are show as

"we're sorry, this video is no longer avaiable"
although the video is avaiablle on embed form


do you know why is it ?

It depends on if the video has embedding disabled by the author.

[GlamRockTalk]

This mod ROCKS!

[GoodKarmaKid]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Leave it with me, I am working on a couple ideas. But if you really need a mod that will only display for certain usergroups right now then try checking out passivevid as I am pretty sure that supports the option.

HTHs

I searched the forum and couldn't find what I was looking for. I currently have passivevid installed (an older edition) and see that they have now crippled the product and don't allow many feeds. Your mod looks awesome by the way.

My Question ? : Do I need to uninstall Passivevid, then install AME? Any special instructions for removing links, etc. I have quite a few videos that are currently be parsed correctly, I just don't want to break any links and have to go back and manually update after switching to your mod.

Thanks for your help,

Jason

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by GoodKarmaKid

I searched the forum and couldn't find what I was looking for. I currently have passivevid installed (an older edition) and see that they have now crippled the product and don't allow many feeds. Your mod looks awesome by the way.

My Question ? : Do I need to uninstall Passivevid, then install AME? Any special instructions for removing links, etc. I have quite a few videos that are currently be parsed correctly, I just don't want to break any links and have to go back and manually update after switching to your mod.

Thanks for your help,

Jason

The two aren't compatible, so passiveVid would have to be uninstalled first. I've notice some problems with the two even after passiveVid has been uninstalled, so make sure all tables the mod uses are clear from your database after removal. What you would do with your older videos would depend on how passiveVid handles it's media.

For example, people who were using custom BBCodes for sites like YouTube, MetaCafe, Google, etc, have the option of rebuilding their posts. In the AME CP there's an option that lets AME go through your posts and change your old BBCode tags to AME tags. So if you where using [youtube] tags, AME could go in and change all to [ame] tags.

I don't know if passiveVid handles media like that at all, or lets you do a similar conversion process before uninstalling it, but hopefully that helps you get started. I do highly recommend this product. But then, I am a little biased because I support the Add-On which adds support for 170 additional sites.

[GoodKarmaKid]

Ok, thanks.

I'll give it a go, and post any trouble I run into. I'm pretty good at following instructions and I don't think I was doing anything special with passivevid, just using it "out of the box" so to speak so hopefully I will get lucky and it will go smooth.

If I f.. something up, I'll pay you to fix it .

Jason

[GoodKarmaKid]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

I don't know if passiveVid handles media like that at all, or lets you do a similar conversion process before uninstalling it, but hopefully that helps you get started. I do highly recommend this product. But then, I am a little biased because I support the Add-On which adds support for 170 additional sites.

I uninstalled passivevid, and installed ame, and it is kind of working. I'm not seeing anywhere in the AME control panel to upload the xml media definitions. I've looked, and looked and I don't see them anywhere. Maybe I'm blind.

Also, the Tools Options is non-existent from the AME control panel. I did manage to find the "tools" in a crazy way, I went to uninstall/Re-install the mod, and was presented with the tools screen, I reverted all passived vid links to raw urls, and then rebuilt them and youtube vids appear to be now working ok, but other sources don't and I obviously want all 160+ definitions to work.

I also need to do some formatting of the player box, where can I change the font color of the embed title for example?

I'm not a coder at all, but I'm good at following directions if someone can point me in the right direction.

Thanks, I really like all the features of this mod, excited to get it working correctly for my members.

Jason

[EagleNick]

When I post a link to a YouTube video, it embeds just fine.
However, the same is not true with a Yahoo video link. This one, for example: http://video.yahoo.com/watch/3864917?fr=yvmtf

How do I resolve this?

Thanks.

[solboy]

Originally Posted by EagleNick

When I post a link to a YouTube video, it embeds just fine.
However, the same is not true with a Yahoo video link. This one, for example: http://video.yahoo.com/watch/3864917?fr=yvmtf

How do I resolve this?

Thanks.

CNN links dont work also.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by EagleNick

When I post a link to a YouTube video, it embeds just fine.
However, the same is not true with a Yahoo video link. This one, for example: http://video.yahoo.com/watch/3864917?fr=yvmtf

How do I resolve this?

Thanks.

The URL structure is different then the typical URL for a Yahoo! video. It will have to be udpated.

Originally Posted by solboy

CNN links dont work also.

Could you post the link to a couple of examples in my thread?