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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[rladner]

The height/width under AME settings were just fine and I also implemented the {} as you suggested but it still doesnt work.

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Only thing I can think of is to check your Height and Width global settings in the AME CP and make sure they aren't blank. Then resave your posts and see if the settings stick. If that doesn't work, then go into your media definition and in the Replacement HTML put brackets around each instance of the size variables. Remember that you'll probably have more than two each definition:

width="{$ameinfo[width]}" height="{$ameinfo[height]}"

Then resave the posts and see if that helps.

[cschroeder1]

I've installed this pulgin, and set it up correctly, I believe, but whenever I post a video url to a thread, it just shows the link and icon for external embedding not available; but if I post the embed code from the you tube page in the post, it embeds just fine. Help!

[cschroeder1]

...but my IE settings were set funky, so my browser was breaking it. Fine now. Awesome add on.

[rladner]

Can anyone give me a helping hand?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by rladner

Can anyone give me a helping hand?

Other than putting in the actual height and width you want for videos, there's no other reason I can think of that it would be doing that. It appears to be an anomaly unique to your forum. Have you tried turning your mods off one at a time yet to see if there's a conflict with something?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by rladner

Can anyone give me a helping hand?

Try disabling file caching.

And click install please

[fly]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Sounds like you may be using the file cache, but for whatever reason, the server can no longer write to the aminfo folder. Check chmod on the folder and its files. Alternatively, turn off the file cache.

Actually, it looks like I can delete and modify all definitions from approximately A-C in the list. After that, I can't delete anything. As a test, I turned off the file cache. It did not seem to help.


edit: Just for fun, I turned off file cache, deleted the files in it, and turned the cache back on. It did create new files in there, but it still doesn't work. BTW, I'm using DJ's definitions. When I attempt to delete ALL of them, this is the error I get - apparently these are the only defs that AME "sees".

Are you sure you want to delete 220, 2K Sports (Part 1), 2K Sports (Part 2), 5min Life Videopedia, Adult Swim, AllPosters (Thumbnails), AllPosters (Thumbnails/Browse), AllPosters (Thumbnails/Search Results), Amazon (aStore), Amazon (Links), Amazon (Thumbnails), AOL Music, AOL Video, Apache Clips, Atom, Bebo (Sponsored Content), BikerPunks, Blip (Permalink), Blip (Show Pages), BooMP3, Break, Break (User Content), Brightcove, CafePress (Thumbnails), CannabisTV, Carpix, Carpix (Categories), Carpix (Live), CBS News, CBS Sports, Clarin, ClipBucket, Clipfish, ClipShack, ClipShare Demo, ClipShare Demo (Old), CNN, **Internal Linking (Forums/Categories), **Internal Linking (Member Profiles), **Internal Linking (Single Posts), **Internal Linking (Threads)? This action can not be undone!

[vwdforum]

Hi Guys.

I've noticed the pins do not appear on vbgooglemaps if I have AME - The Automatic Media Embeder 2.5.5 enabled.

If I disable AME the pin's appear.

Any idea how to fix this issue?

Thanks Mally

[odln018]

Is there a method where the video can be placed on the left/right/center?

[odln018]

I've just run into an issue where AME somehow breaks internal linking.

Here's another person who's run into the problem: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=298020

I've confirmed this by disabling AME on my forum, and all internal links start to work.