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 Dawg]

Noob question.

Previously I had HTML enabled. Is there a tool I can use via AdminCP, Shell, etc to search and replace all posts? Even if it worked just for YouTube it would be great.

* I searched this mod and did not see these questions answered.

Thanks.

[The Dawg]

Originally Posted by jmillsss

Thanks - Can someone tell me where/how to do this?

The templates are added to your board's skins. So go to your Style Manager and you will find them there.

[The Smoking Gun]

Way too many pages of posts to pour through....but I have one simple question.

Will this allow me to post locally hosted .wmv videos, as it does all the remotely hosted ones?

Simply put, when I get a funny windows media player video file I would like to be able to embed it in a post for my members to have a good laugh!

I do realize I may also need another mod that works with this one to do it, so any help would be appreciated since 3.8 was my first purchased use of vB, and didn't have access to this end of the back office on the earlier versions, I globally moderated on another board!

Thanks for your help,

TSG!

[Stryker412]

Geek, what resolution should I set AME to so it defaults to widescreen?

Edit: Nevermind, I wound up using 576x324 and it looks nice.

[Daky]

What should i do about this error in admin/amecp/tools/rebuil/posts

Warning: unserialize() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in [path]/admincp/automediaembed_admin.php on line 1264

http://my.jetscreenshot.com/201/20090819-wk4l-156kb


Also,
[S]I did try to rebuild post cache in (admin/amecp/tools/rebuil/posts) but my old posts with videos are still showing only as URL - re-saving posts will put video back[/S] <---- re-did it - ALL OK NOW

I used to have golbrick before and some of the links are still showing in this format:

[media="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbrR5mpi8jM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbrR5mpi8jM[/media]

and they r not being converted back to URL.

Lastly, is it possible to display videos in quotes? Now i only see link to youtube for example.


Any suggestion?
Tnx in advance!

[hippyTRIBE]

Just wanted to say THANK YOU SOOOO MUCHHHHHHH....!!!

installed.. and works like a charm !!!

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by The Smoking Gun

Way too many pages of posts to pour through....but I have one simple question.

Will this allow me to post locally hosted .wmv videos, as it does all the remotely hosted ones?

Simply put, when I get a funny windows media player video file I would like to be able to embed it in a post for my members to have a good laugh!

I do realize I may also need another mod that works with this one to do it, so any help would be appreciated since 3.8 was my first purchased use of vB, and didn't have access to this end of the back office on the earlier versions, I globally moderated on another board!


Thanks for your help,

TSG!

Check DJ's add on thread. I believe that he has some definitions for locally hosted files.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Daky

What should i do about this error in admin/amecp/tools/rebuil/posts

Warning: unserialize() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in [path]/admincp/automediaembed_admin.php on line 1264

http://my.jetscreenshot.com/201/20090819-wk4l-156kb


Also,
[S]I did try to rebuild post cache in (admin/amecp/tools/rebuil/posts) but my old posts with videos are still showing only as URL - re-saving posts will put video back[/S] <---- re-did it - ALL OK NOW

I used to have golbrick before and some of the links are still showing in this format:

[media="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbrR5mpi8jM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbrR5mpi8jM[/media]

and they r not being converted back to URL.

Lastly, is it possible to display videos in quotes? Now i only see link to youtube for example.


Any suggestion?
Tnx in advance!

I suspect that the unserialize error is a one off, all it is doing is trying to save and redeploy your last used settings for that particular page. It won't actually affect the running of the page.

The convert media tags SHOULD revert the old media tags, however it may require a slightly more complex regexp type pattern. Withouth spending some time on it, I am not sure what theat would be.

re: showing in quotes, there is no way to disable this without a file edit, and it is the first time it has been mentioned. I will consider it for a future release.

Originally Posted by hippyTRIBE

Just wanted to say THANK YOU SOOOO MUCHHHHHHH....!!!

installed.. and works like a charm !!!

Thanks, don't forget to click install

[Daky]

Originally Posted by The Geek

I suspect that the unserialize error is a one off, all it is doing is trying to save and redeploy your last used settings for that particular page. It won't actually affect the running of the page.

Yups,... all went fine script works it just that this error message bothers me,... is there maybe anything that can be removed from that file so no more error?

The convert media tags SHOULD revert the old media tags, however it may require a slightly more complex regexp type pattern. Withouth spending some time on it, I am not sure what theat would be.

;( i did trey several ways no luck,... do u maybe have a hint,- or anybody else?

re: showing in quotes, there is no way to disable this without a file edit, and it is the first time it has been mentioned. I will consider it for a future release.

My members are already `crying` because of this,... i just switched from GB (where this was working) - Hopefully this will be implemented in next release, and hopefully it will be soon

[Itchy Nips]

I'm testing out this mod and most vids are working fine *kudos to you!*

this (random) video that I pulled from metacafe is not working though. Any reason why?
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-HJr...tadium_speech/