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

[kris1351]

Trying to use the product, but keep running into mod_sec errors. Any ideas on bypassing or what its using that is triggering?

[Fri Oct 09 12:25:56 2009] [error] [client xxxx] ModSecurity: Access denied with code 403 (phase 2). Match of "beginsWith http://%{SERVER_NAME}/" against "MATCHED_VAR" required. [file "/usr/local/apache/conf/modsec_rules/10_asl_rules.conf"] [line "689"] [id "340162"] [rev "160"] [msg "Remote File Injection attempt in ARGS (AE)"] [data ""] [severity "CRITICAL"] [hostname "www.xxxx.com"] [uri "/forum/admincp/automediaembed_admin.php"] [unique_id "Ss9yJEESeAIAAENJMkoAAAAG"]

[papabear99]

We are in need of the functionality of the vbGoogleMap add-on and I tried installing a few times and finding some work-arounds but, at the end of the day, it does NOT work with AME installed.

Has this issue been addressed before I uninstall it and buy Passive Video???

Cheers

Papa Bear

[jdougher]

Lately, when posted, all YouTube videos are showing up twice, with the some code in-between, as in

" title="YouTube - Sen. Barack Obama's Full Speech to the DNC" target="_blank">YouTube - Sen. Barack Obama's Full Speech to the DNC

[mickknutson]

I have RSS Feeds being posted to to:
http://www.blincmagazine.com/forum/news-feeds/

from many sources, like YouTube. When the RSS feed posts the initial thread, the video is NOT parsed like this one IS:
http://www.blincmagazine.com/forum/n...uman-bird.html

The URL is just blank.

Right now, I have 2 work-around's:

1. Edit the Posting in Advanced mode, then save the the post is parsed.

2. Run the AME tools to re-parse all my threads.

Neither of these solutions are good for me as I have many dozen postings every day, and can not manually keep up.

So, is there a way to automate this in my one News RSS forum?

[Miss Chatterbox]

I've just installed this and it's stopped my private messages from working! I get a notification of a PM and who it's from but when I click on the link to read the PM in comes up with a blank page. Any idea why this has happened? I tried uninstalling it and I could read my PM's fine again.

Please help!

[smokin1337]

Is there anyway to make this parse links on FORUMHOME ? I want to put a video on my FORUMHOME and not sure how to do it, i will be changing the video regularly.

[Blacura]

In blogs there is a database error even though i have this installed. please help me out with this one folks

[inciarco]

Possible Bug?

When I Create a Thread, or a New Post, or Edit a Thread, or Edit a New Post, (and go to the "Go Advanced" Editor, of course), on the First Displayed Page (newthread.php, newreply.php, editpost.php) the Option "Automatically embed media (requires automatic parsing of links in text to be on)." appears, but when I Click the "Preview Changes" Button the Option Dissapears, leaving only the other ones and unabling me to Unselect it for the URLs not to be Converted to Embedded Videos.

I'm Trying this Mod on my vB373 PL1 Test Forum.

Is Somebody Experiencing this Error Too, (on vB38x and vB37x)?

If so, what can I do to Correct it? What Should I Check and Change?

On the Version 2.2 this Error doesn't Happen, it Happened only on the Update to Verson 2.5.

My Best Regards.

[BigDog56]

I uninstalled this and now all the urls are showing ame instead of url. How can I change it back to url?
Never mind, I figured it out.

[slobra]

Edit: Nevermind. Found the problem.