Major Additions - DJ's AME :: The Ultimate Automatic Media Embedder :: 2.5.7

From the team who brought you the blockbuster film "Yahtzee!", comes the next major motion picture about incredibly bad and arbitrary puns:

AME 2.5.7: Electric Boogaloo

AME automatically embeds media in posts without the need for pesky BBCode cluttering up your editor toolbar. It's also lightweight, and saves resources that BBCode would ordinarily consume. Your users don't even have to know you have AME installed. If they share a link from YouTube, Dailymotion, Amazon, Metacafe or Vimeo, AME automatically embeds the content for them. No special code to learn. No instructions for newbies to understand.

In addition, AME allows you to create, import and export support for individual websites in the form of media definitions. These XML files expand your AME to support a limitless number of websites from around the net and let you share them with the community. We currently have around 200 media definitions collected at this repository thread. If you want additional support for website not listed, please ask for it there. Odds are, we might already have one. (TIP: Be sure to check the Add-Ons section below for stuff you might miss out on, otherwise.)


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CREDITS

This modification was originally built by [name]The Geek[/name], who is no longer coding for vBulletin. We miss him. But he gave permission for someone to continue to build upon his work. All I've done is modify the code a little to support additional functionality and to provide a place to continue to support the product. The product didn't need too much tweaking, but I did manage to add some new features I think you will enjoy, which I'll lay out in the feature list below.

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RECOMMENDATIONS

It is HIGHLY recommended that you read the READ ME.html file included in the ZIP file before you upgrade or install. You don't want to be blind-sided, now do you?


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NEW INSTALLATIONS

1. Download and Unzip the contents of the ZIP file.
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2. Upload the contents of the "UPLOAD to Forum Root" folder to your forum's root directory. (This is the directory where your vBulletin is physically installed.) Also, if you've renamed your Admin CP folder, be sure to move the admincp folder's contents to your renamed directory.
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3. CHMOD your amecache folder to 777.
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4. Go to your Admin CP ?? Plugins & Products ?? Manage Products ?? Add/Import Products and import the product-djs_AME-2.5.7.xml file.
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5. Your Admin CP should automatically refresh and you should now see the AME CP somewhere below your vBulletin Options menu.

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TO UPGRADE

If you are upgrading from AME 2.5.6.

1. Delete custom definitions specifically for Amazon, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Vimeo and YouTube. (Key names: amazon, dailymotion, metacafe, vimeo and youtube) Theses five definitions are now hard coded into the product and will be updated along with the product if need be. You can back these up if you need to, but keep in mind if you use any custom defs for these sites, they will be duplicated every time you upgrade AME. So don't ask my why your videos are doubled up, or I'll throw rocks at you.
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2. Upload the contents of the "UPLOAD to Forum Root" folder to your forum's root directory, overwriting previous versions of the files.
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3. Ensure that your amecache directory is still CHMOD'd to 777.
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4. Import the product-djs_AME-2.5.7.xml file into your Product Manager, making sure to set the option to Allow Overwrite to Yes.
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5. If you are using the file cache, it is strongly recommended that you re-sync your cache using the Tools menu.

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WHAT ELSE?

The following five posts will include:

• Additional Screenshots
• Full Features List
• FAQ
• Resources to develop your own custom definitions
• AME History/Changelog

[rrhill]

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

You understand this modification is for vB 3.8.X, correct?

Version 4.2 already embeds media, it's native to the version.

Thank you for your response. Started a vBulletin board three weeks ago. No, I was not aware this was a modification for 3.8.X only.

What I wanted to do is embed more video's than just youtube alone. Next I found "Digital Sith's AMEs - ADULT Media Definitions" at: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ight=xtube.com

The AME seemed exactly the plug in I was looking for. Do you have any hints where I should start to learn more for playing other media definitions in v4.2?

[rrhill]

Originally Posted by Gadget_Guy

I get this all the time with adding plugins.

Install the plugin

(The styles will go all wonky for the forum)

Then, pick any plugin at random, disable, then re-enable it

Presto... forum goes back to looking normal.


I have no idea why.... but this has become my go-to fix for when this happens.

Drove me crazy for months trying to figure this out...


D.

Thank you for sharing this info... never would have guessed this : -)

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by rrhill

Thank you for your response. Started a vBulletin board three weeks ago. No, I was not aware this was a modification for 3.8.X only.

What I wanted to do is embed more video's than just youtube alone. Next I found "Digital Sith's AMEs - ADULT Media Definitions" at: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ight=xtube.com

The AME seemed exactly the plug in I was looking for. Do you have any hints where I should start to learn more for playing other media definitions in v4.2?

I don't know for a fact this won't work in version 4. It might well, since there is no version of this FOR version 4.

The native vB 4 media embedding supports more than just YouTube videos. Which might also be why there is no version of this Mod, for vB4.

I like, don't think you need it and stuff.

[Digital Jedi]

It shouldn't work for verson 4 at all. However, there is The Geek's version for vB 4, but it requires some patching at the moment to make work with different vB 4 versions. I'm working on my own forked version of that (just like I did with this one) for AME 3, where you won't need some patching. Unfortunately, I'm limited by the fact I don't have access to a 4.2 board. (I have 4.0.) So I'm a bit reluctant to release a full version not knowing if it will even function properly.

In addition, AME 3 definitions are unique to AME 3, as AME 2.5 definitions are to AME 2.5. They're not compatible and will have to be updated. I DID release a Beta set of definitions for AME 3, and so far, no one has said there are a lot of problems. I'll release one more set for AME as a Beta, and the go live if no one continues to have any problems. DS has said he'll probably do an AME 3 set of his Adult definitions, but, well, if you think I'm slow....

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

I don't know for a fact this won't work in version 4. It might well, since there is no version of this FOR version 4.

The native vB 4 media embedding supports more than just YouTube videos. Which might also be why there is no version of this Mod, for vB4.

I like, don't think you need it and stuff.

The Geek did build one, but it's lesser known. He built AME 3 on vB4's native ability. The thing with vB4 is it embedded, but it didn't autoembed. And you couldn't create and share definitions with the community in the form of exportable XML files, so AME 3 brought that to vB4. Which is why the definitions aren't compatible, because the AME 3 used the existing infrastructure, whereas AME 1-2.5 were entirely The Geek's codebase.

[muggs72]

I installed this mod on vb 3.8.I uploaded all the folders to root directory and I do see ame cp settings on my admin cp.But I dont see a link on the nav bar.Is there a code I need to add on the template?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by muggs72

I installed this mod on vb 3.8.I uploaded all the folders to root directory and I do see ame cp settings on my admin cp.But I dont see a link on the nav bar.Is there a code I need to add on the template?

On the navbar? There's nothing to link to that would require a navbar link. You don't visit a page or anything like that. This mod embeds videos into posts automatically.

[muggs72]

Thank so much for the help.I was under the impression this mod is like video directory.That is why thought this would install a tab in navbar.Think I was wrong.I did try to embed video in the post and it is working.Thank u again.

[muggs72]

one more issue I came across.I tried embed code it works only in few forums.But not all.I tried forum permissions.usergroup permission etc.Dont know what the problem is.

[muggs72]

Never mind it works fine now.I figured out the issue.