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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[markuswarren]

I've also noticed an oddity with the youtube media definition not always working. I cannot state wether this was due to the 3.8.3 upgrade or not, but I don't think it is.
Why? Well I've spoken to some users and asked them to supply me with the URLS they actually put into their posts, both for working and non working youtube media. I've found the following:

A url of this format does work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXX-XxXXxxX

A url of this format does NOT work:

http://www.youtube.com/v/XXXX-XxXXxxX

The reason to me is obvious, the format of the urls are different and the youtube definition seems to be working on the one with "watch?" as part of the url. Thus I would assume you could add a new definition via exporting the existing youtube one, changing the key for it and of course the regular expression it's looking at and then import it as a new definition

I've exported and imported my "new" definition, but I'm no expert on regular expressions, so I'm a bit stuck here.

It's possible this problem has always existed, or it could be that youtube has changed something in regards to it's url format and it's co-incidence that this occurred when vB 3.8.3 was released.

[barcena]

PHP Code:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/sy-25841763001/jordin_sparks_battlefield_official_music_video/ 


Id paste the link of a Metacafe video and i'm getting only the link, not the video itself.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/sy-258...l_music_video/

[barcena]

Well not only that, now i only get links even with youtube, i will like to go to my previous status, how can i do that? Just by dissabling the mod?.

I want to be able to see at least the youtube videos embeded.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Ryloth

ok so 3.8.3 and youtube def does not work. it always wraps it w/ a URL tag and puts the following image before it:

Provide some example youtube urls for me to check out. It could be that the validation is failing because of some other error. You can try editing the definition and clearing out the validation regexp which will prevent AME from trying to validate the media.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by newsoftw

when i Upgrade vb vbulletin version 3.8.2 into 3.8.3....after that , the youtube video is working stop and also some other videos means only show links in forum...

http://www.newsoftworld.com/forums/f...wc-2009-a.html

plz any idea about that and solve urgently this problem.

please any body help me urgently............please.....the videos are not display in the forum and all user start the complaints......

thanks in ADVNS

I dont fully follow you, but it could be related to the post above. Can you provide some URLs that are not working?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by markuswarren

I've also noticed an oddity with the youtube media definition not always working. I cannot state wether this was due to the 3.8.3 upgrade or not, but I don't think it is.
Why? Well I've spoken to some users and asked them to supply me with the URLS they actually put into their posts, both for working and non working youtube media. I've found the following:

A url of this format does work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXX-XxXXxxX

A url of this format does NOT work:

http://www.youtube.com/v/XXXX-XxXXxxX

The reason to me is obvious, the format of the urls are different and the youtube definition seems to be working on the one with "watch?" as part of the url. Thus I would assume you could add a new definition via exporting the existing youtube one, changing the key for it and of course the regular expression it's looking at and then import it as a new definition

I've exported and imported my "new" definition, but I'm no expert on regular expressions, so I'm a bit stuck here.

It's possible this problem has always existed, or it could be that youtube has changed something in regards to it's url format and it's co-incidence that this occurred when vB 3.8.3 was released.

That could cause a problem. Please post some example URLs though that are having a problem.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by barcena

PHP Code:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/sy-25841763001/jordin_sparks_battlefield_official_music_video/ 


Id paste the link of a Metacafe video and i'm getting only the link, not the video itself.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/sy-258...l_music_video/

Youll have to ask the person who did the metacafe definition.

Hmm... will start to run some 3.8.3 tests.

[The Geek]

FWIW, I just installed a fresh copy of 3.8.3 and AME 2.5.4 and can't see any issues. Everything I am posting from youtube is working as expected so if you think that AME is getting false positives on validating embedding, please provide some example URLs that should be embedding but aren't.

Thanks all

[daFish]

A user recently posted this URL and it doesn't get converted to the embedded player:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzShwtQHYms

I assume the bracket in the video title confuses the parser.

[The Geek]

Bracket should be fine. In fact, just tested it on default install and it embeds fine. Have you tried it?