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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[Deyth]

Is there any way to embed HD Youtube videos?

[Reycer]

for some reason, this just quit working. None of the vids work anymore. It was working and then *poof* it quit one day.

[mc2w]

Example:
In the WYSIWYG editor my post will look like:

Line one:
youtube link here

Line 2.

Line 3.

But after parsing, it looks like:

Line 1.
Youtube embed.
Line 2.
Line 3.

However, the line breaks remain intact if the AME parsing is disabled for the post.

[popular]

whenever i try to post i get some weird code like "http://<div style="display: none;" i...<br /> </div>"

it just stopped working today know why?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Deyth

Is there any way to embed HD Youtube videos?

think DJ has a youtube HD definition as an addon.

Originally Posted by mdelcour

for some reason, this just quit working. None of the vids work anymore. It was working and then *poof* it quit one day.

Have you changed anything on your site lately? One of the more common things that stops AME working is using a mod that modifies URLs (i.e. using vBSEO to track outbound links). If not, provide a URL as an example

Originally Posted by mc2w

Example:
In the WYSIWYG editor my post will look like:


But after parsing, it looks like:

However, the line breaks remain intact if the AME parsing is disabled for the post.

Not sure how AME could affect this. AME only changes the output of the link, not the text around it. Can you provide a URL as an example?

Originally Posted by popular

whenever i try to post i get some weird code like "http://<div style="display: none;" i...<br /> </div>"

it just stopped working today know why?

Looks like you may have duplicate definitions. Remove any duplicates you have.

[mc2w]

<a href="http://wiflba.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11" target="_blank">http://wiflba.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11</a>

For some threads it doesn't happen, but it's happening in this one (which you can see if you try to quote it) (I'll unlock the post so you can try if you'd like)

Edit: Here's an update on the problem: The problem only occurs if there's a link that cannot be parsed (e.g. one in a code tag or one with embedding disabled)

[popular]

ive tried reinstalling , taking out youtube before i added it again so it isn't duplicate but same thing happens heres the full code i get whenever i try to post youtube it just pastes this in my post instead, any idea why? i just checked it and happens with other sites too , is my forum not allowing bbcode or something?

<div style="display: none;" id="ame_noshow_post_1247602553_3">
<a href="" title="YouTube" target="_blank">YouTube</a>
</div>
<div style="display: inline;" id="ame_doshow_post_1247602553_3">
<div align="center">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="7" cellspacing="1" width="425" style="margin:10px 0">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="2" style="text-align:center">
<a href="" title="YouTube" target="_blank">YouTube</a>
</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="panelsurround" align="center">
<object width="425" height="350">
<param name=''movie'' value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xOvaCV6uQp8&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&fs=1"></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xOvaCV6uQp8&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent"></embed></object>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div>
</div>

[barcena]

Can somebody tell me if i had this properly setted?

[barcena]

Also with Youtube for some reason it shows double, two videos even though the link is posted just once

Can somebody please help me out?

Thanks.

Update

I just disable passiveVid (Automaticlly turns video links like youtube, myspace videos, google vidoes into the video players) and I have no two Youtube videos anymore BUT I'm not seeing the Google videos anymore, just the link. I do have the AME working bc of the way the Youtube video shows (see attachment) but now nothing else is showing, just the link.

H.E.L.P. Pleaseeeeee. :erm:

[barcena]

<font size="2">Here you can see (attached) how the Youtube video shows but not Google videos or Daily Motion but the link.</font>