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

[The DaveyG]

Great mod.

I'm using this in conjunction with a Forms app. For example, I have the user enter the URL of a show on Hulu and it is supposed to automatically show up embedded on the thread that is generated. However, it's not changing the link into an imbed. Is there some setting I am missing or does this just not work on posts not made using the traditional means?

[swami2302]

I need help!!!! Youtube isn't showing up. All I get is the title of my post. And that's it. In fact I have tried several different sites and the only one I've had any success with is Google. However the videos in Google are small. Please Help

http://www.unitygospel.net/forum/showthread.php?t=240

[Ohiosweetheart]

I have good success with Yahoo videos.

But, I too, am having a problem with YouTube not parsing. I get the link instead of the video. However, it's only intermittent, not all the time.

See Here - http://www.rushhourmadness.com/showt...p?t=124&page=2

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by Ohiosweetheart

See Here - http://www.rushhourmadness.com/showt...p?t=124&page=2

You'll note in that specific Youtube video, in the embedding link:

Embedding disabled by request

This would be why it doesn't work.

If the video couldn't be embedded, there needs to be some sort of warning for the user, it only makes sense, but that would be why that youtube video didn't work right. In fact, if you look at most of them that don't work right (if not all), I'd bet you would see the same thing

[Ryloth]

Originally Posted by The Geek

The above isn't a valid URL. Its a direct link to the actual flash object and one that wouldnt appear in the address bar when browsing youtube. AME needs a valid URL (though a custom definition could possibly be created)

According to the definition it is. Also if you wrap it in AME tags, it loads up just fine.

Btw I am using FF and not the advanced WYSIWYG



Definition:

[http://]*[a-z]*?[\.]?youtube\.[a-z]*?/watch\?v=([A-Z0-9._%-]*)[&\w;=\+_\-]*

[Ryloth]

update, i went into the definition and turned off Extract Information and youtube started working again just fine.

Looks like there is an issue w/ the Extract Information functionality.


the extract definition date value is:

value="http://www\.youtube\.com/v/([\w\-]*)?&

[Omanternity]

Hey

Is there any possible way to make AME only come into effect when the URL is posted in it's URL form

http://youtube.com/etc

and not if it was inside a marked up text link [URL] ?

Is this possible at all ?

[newsoftw]

Originally Posted by Ryloth

update, i went into the definition and turned off Extract Information and youtube started working again just fine.

Looks like there is an issue w/ the Extract Information functionality.


the extract definition date value is:

value="http://www\.youtube\.com/v/([\w\-]*)?&

Thanks for great helping and also after doing that, working start only youbue videos but youtube videos are twice a time show in post....please below link....

http://www.newsoftworld.com/forums/f...-nail-gun.html


please any idea ???

[Ohiosweetheart]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

You'll note in that specific Youtube video, in the embedding link:


This would be why it doesn't work.

If the video couldn't be embedded, there needs to be some sort of warning for the user, it only makes sense, but that would be why that youtube video didn't work right. In fact, if you look at most of them that don't work right (if not all), I'd bet you would see the same thing

Well darn. I thought that the other link would work.

Thanks for your help.

[Wayne Luke]

Sorry if this has been posted before but there are too many posts in the thread to read them all.

I want to show YouTube HD in a 16:9 format and not the 4:3 format provided now. Anyone know how to change the definition to accommodate this?