Show Thread Enhancements - AME - Auto Media Embedding (youtube, Amazon, google, myspace, etc...)

From the inventors of Swiss Cheese and the Egg comes AME - The Automatic Media Embedding System.

Note that Version 2.0.0 can be found here

AME is derived from GAL 6 base code but instead of linking keywords, it converts URLs that users paste or enter in their posts into inline embedded video streams.

Big credit goes out to mfyvie for the original concept that jazzed me up enough to lift code that I have been working on to radically improve his fresh idea. Though the same goal, I have taken a totally different approach to his initial release. This mod is 100% steaming fresh code straight from the Geeks oven of love.

First... the overview

AME scans new and edited posts for pre-defined patterns of URLs (i.e. youtube's). If it finds a match, it swaps the url tag for an ame tag.
When a post get parsed for bbcode and an ame tag is found, instead of hammering away at the post with umpteen bbcodes, AME quietly figures out which pre-defined embedding should be placed there and... viola', you have a pretty little embedded video like this:

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This is significantly faster, has much lower overhead and is much easier to manage than loads of bbcodes or a than scanning every single post as the user views it to see if there are any conversions that need to be made.

Now for the bells and whistles

AME:

• 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. This radically reduces overhead and speeds up the 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 in a post)
• 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!
• 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 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
• 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 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

Add ons

AME comes configured with YouTube, Myspacetv, Google Video, Bolt, iFilm, Yahoo, Dailymotion, Amazon and MetaCafe Support built in. Since the amount of providers are always changing and most sites will only need a particular amount, AME has been designed with an import and export system to allow members to easily share formats with one another. In fact, the second post of this thread is updated periodically to relflect those add ons. Currently there are over 12 more additional formats contributed by AME users. Click here to see them.

Installation

• Upload the contents of the forums folder into your forums directory and import the product.xml file into your product manager.
• 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.

Troubleshooting

See this post on troubleshooting

A note about support and such

I have my plate pretty full with taking care of my commercial mods and the support that comes with them. Saying that, I will help when I can - but to be honest, I have ensured that there should be little to no support needed on this mod as it is very much self contained.
Please do not PM or post asking me to give you regexp's to support additional media streams. I built the system so that you can add your own providers as well as the ability to import and export them. If you still need a pattern but are not great with regular expressions (who is?) then I suggest getting RegExpBuddy. Although I am not expert at regular expressions, I did a quick start tutorial on AME regexps here if you want to check it out. I don't mind you guys asking amongst each other for these things, but just note that I will most likely not respond to the requests.

I will reserve the first couple of posts in this thread to periodically add user contributed patterns to import and for additional information (I hate mega long first post's in the release section). So check there for up to date information.

nJoy

[john_robot]

Hi, I need help with this site...

http://www.clipsharedemo.com/


How to get this to be worked ?

[carleboy]

hi this is an excellent bit of kit but i have 1 problem if anyone can help?

all the urls i put in work fine except youtube it doubles up and shows the vidio twice?

liveling, google, yahoo they all show just once but youtube shows teice one on top of the other. seems like double coding or somthing and i have no idea how to fix it lol.

thanks in advance.

[hotwheels]

I know i asked earlier and found out this week that the geek has some personal stuff going on.
So i have a question for anyone that has had any luck with the regex stuff.

I have been working on alot of different media tags and i have a problem trying to grab the actual media player.

This code is for break.com, and i realize that it is a hard one to work with, but i am trying to see if we can get some type of tutorial going for those that would like to learn to work with this awesome mod.

Here is what i have done with break:

Reg Expression:

PHP Code:

http://www\.break\.com/index/([/\w-.+]*) 


Replacement
The HTML to use. Note the backreference!

PHP Code:

<object width="464" height="392"><param name="movie" value="http://embed.break.com/MzYyNjc4"></param><embed src="http://embed.break.com/MzYyNjc4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="464" height="392"></embed></object> 


and if you go to your site with the above, and place in any break url, you will get the player and it will only play: MzYyNjc4

My confusion comes by the way of the $p1 , where, how and why do you use this?

It doesn't seem to matter what video program i work with, i can get the regex to work enough to show a player, but once i try inserting the $p1, i get nothing. What exactly is need to force the embed player to work with the $p1, with ANY of the url's we have used lately?

[hotwheels]

here is another one i was working on, but yet, i can't figure out where to put the $p1. The way it is set right now, it will play the video as i have it, but it will not let me put in a different video.

PHP Code:

http://www\.zippyvideos\.com/([\w/+]*) 


The \w should call numbers and letters, right? and the / should cover and /'s in the address?

PHP Code:

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://www.zippyvideos.com/embed.z?u=9265062231561576"></script> 


So i should be able to put the $p1 after the u=, but it doesn't work........I am really confused on the regex to player conversion.......am i just looking at the address bar of the site, and the embed code, or is it just the embed code we go after?

This is the address bar link: http://www.zippyvideos.com/330669605.../bucksboxing2/

The above code works, but again, you can't change video. It will only play the 9265062231561576

[Dannyloski]

john_robot, ClipShare requires the Extract Info of AME and at this point no one knows how to get it to work, so support for that site cannot be added until The Geek (author of hack) comes back and explains it.

carleboy, sounds like you have 2 YouTube RegExs installed on your site. Try this: Go to AdminCP > AME CP > Display > Look to see if you have 2 "You Tube" installed, if so then > Select [Delete] for one of them > Confirm Deletion by clicking "Yes" on the next screen and you're done! This should fix your problem ...

hotwheels, please read This Tutorial on RegExs it will help you understand them. You are getting some stuff confused from what I can see on your posts. In addition, Break.com requires the use of the Extract Info Feature of AME, which at the moment no one knows how it works except The Geek. You will not be able to get Break.com to work at all until he explains it when he gets back.

[carleboy]

hi it wasnt that but you did make me see the problem lol i had an old mod instaled for just youtube so they were both woring together lol sorry and thanks for the help.

[hotwheels]

Thanks for the reply Dannyloski and i did read over the basic tutorial. It doesn't cover the use of the $p1 at all. I have gone over that tutorial till i was blue in the face. That's why i was hoping to get other member's together that have learned this set up, so that we could build a large AME database......

[Dannyloski]

carleboy, glad to see problem was resolved

hotwheels, I had a almost an entire page written with help on how the $p1 feature works and the electricity went out, I'm not gonna rewrite it again right at this moment, so when I get a chance I'll rewrite it. Sorry, but I got some other stuff I need to do. I suggest you take a look at some current RegEx you got on your site and compare the RegExs to the Embed Code, so what the $p1 does from what you can see, it's self explanatory. It basically contains the unique key or something for each video and with the RegEx you create you are able to extract it and use it for each video on your embed code.

[hotwheels]

the RegEx you create you are able to extract it and use it for each video on your embed code.

Gotcha.............

[animehawk]

Hi Danny, is there anyway you can help get video from guba.com on the list?

Thanks!