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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[sergey22]

Hello,

I was wondering if there is any workaround to get RSS Feed Robot's post to be translated by AME.

Thanks!

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by sergey22

Hello,

I was wondering if there is any workaround to get RSS Feed Robot's post to be translated by AME.

Thanks!

It depends, it seems, on the forum, but most of the time it will work if the URL in the feeds post is a supported one. In other cases you have to put [AME][/AME] tags around the variable in the Feed Manager to get it to convert.

[sergey22]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

It depends, it seems, on the forum, but most of the time it will work if the URL in the feeds post is a supported one. In other cases you have to put tags around the variable in the Feed Manager to get it to convert.

Right now I have:
url={feed:link}]Watch at Youtube.[/url - "omitted starting [ and ] closing tags on purpose here

and this doesn't get converted, which tags should I be using?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by sergey22

Right now I have:
url={feed:link}]Watch at Youtube.[/url - "omitted starting [ and ] closing tags on purpose here

and this doesn't get converted, which tags should I be using?

[AME]{feed:link}[/AME]

Sorry, forgot to include the noparse tags in my last post, so the [AME] tags got stripped out.

[Kanustep]

Originally Posted by The Geek

The findonly.php file (in the above folder) is either missing or (more likely) the permissions have recently been changed on it. You can rebuild the cache files by toggling off and on the cache setting in AME

I'm not able to findonly.php file too. What's the next step?

[Kadi]

Hi,

Thanks for the mod.

I believe I installed everything correctly. Not getting errors or anything, but the links are still links.

What am I missing?

Thanks.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Kanustep

I'm not able to findonly.php file too. What's the next step?

Did you do as he suggested and toggle the cache on/off settings?

[Kanustep]

Yes I did and it worked, should I do anything else? My site uses pleanty of media, shouldn't cache help?

[wheezyb]

any ideas about this guys?

Starting yesterday I've had issues with the viewing forum statistics (for a lack of a better term).

For example, I'll have 30 people online (and only have two forums and 99% of the traffic is in one forum), but in the forums home it will only show that 2-3 people are viewing the forum (when it is obviously not the case, multiple people are posting during this time).

When I click on currently active users, most users are from unknown locations. Underneath it reads: /clientscript/ame.js

I have the AME plugin installed, but I've had it installed for over a month with no such issues. Haven't made any CPanel modifications in a while either. Even still, I don't know why that plugin would have any effect on this issue (I don't even know that ame.js has anything to do with the AME plugin, just figured it did.)

I attached a screenshot of the currently active users to show what I'm talking about.

[metalguy639]

Will this show up in a vbadvanced CMPS page? I have it set inside a news module and the videos are not showing up. What should I do to make them appear? I'm using vb 3.8.4 & CMPS 3.2.1.

What I did was make a custom module to display my custom news module copy (copied the news module to a new module). In this news module I want to show the parts of the post & the actual video, but all I get is the posts and not the video I embedded into that post. It works fine inside the forum where I posted the link, but it just does not show in vbadvanced CMPS. Any help would be great! Thanks.