General support topic for Aeva Media (Latest release: July 28, 2010)

[Nao 尚]

This is the video section at the post source:

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<div id="aevid10">
<a href="http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=2a4wpoj&amp;s=5" target="_blank"

Did you notice the &? I'm not sure if it was added by Aeva (probably), or posted as is...

This is the link my user posted:

http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=2a4wpoj&s=5

Are you sure it wasn't ended by &s=5?

I believe the problem is that the embed swf object is missing the number 5 at the swf object query (&s=)

Yep, absolutely. &s=... is needed. Hence the problem. But my code looks fine, that's why I was asking you if the link was posted exactly as expected.

One more thing... AEVA used to upgrade automatically, but I've just notice that the latest version is 7.0.703 and I'm running version 6.9.99. (My SMF is v1.1.10.)

It has never upgraded itself automatically. Where did you get that from?
It only updates the site list automatically. Which is already unique in the mod community.

Should I upgrade manually?

Absolutely.

If so, do I have to uninstall the mod first and reinstall in order to upgrade?

Yes, uninstall first.

[CodeDev]

UPDATE:

Hello again! 

I've updated AEVA to the latest version, all went fine, I unisntalled previous and reinstall, as stated in the readme file (forgive me for asking before read).

However, the main problem persists, TinyPic videos are not working.


The user did not post the link with & the link is as stated:
http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=2a4wpoj&s=5

And I've test it again on a private board, and the same problem persists...

About updating itself, never mind, I got it now, only the site list was updated.

I've inclusive re-generated the custom site list and still not working...

This is TinyPic section (in Subs-Aeva-Generated-Sites.php)

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array(
'id' => 'tin',
'pattern' => 'http://(?:www\.|\w[\w-]+\.)?tinypic\.com/(?:player\.php\?v=|[rm]/)([0-9a-z-]{1,12})(?:(?:&s=|/)(\d+))?',
'movie' => 'http://(v$3|v3).tinypic.com/player.swf?file=$2&s=$3',
'size' => array(440, 420),
'fix-html-pattern' => '<embed [^>]*src="http://v(\d+)\.tinypic\.com/player\.swf\?file=([0-9a-z-]{1,12})[^<>]*?>(?:</embed>)?(?:<br><font size="1"><a href="http://tinypic\.com/.*?</font>)?(?:<img style="visibility:hidden;[^<>]*?>)?',
'fix-html-url' => 'http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=$2&s=$1',
),


Many thanks in advance for your help.

[gffb]

@gffb> Ah, you're the one from smf-media... Okay, then that would explain your problem with SMG. The video you posted was handled by Aeva rather than SMG, because you posted a direct link to your file, rather than uploaded the file itself.
I never tested MP4 files on Aeva and indeed it doesn't work. It's not that it's buggy -- it's just that Aeva considers MP4 files to be audio, so it uses the remote MP3 player instead of the remote Video player. I've compiled a version of Aeva that adds separate support for MP4. As evidenced here:
http://aeva.noisen.com/dev/5060/tests-video-embedding/msg235111/#msg235111

Thank you that has resolved my issue fully, and the Gallery now works too

[Nao 尚]

To anyone interested...
I've committed an update to Aeva. If you're using SMF2 and are brave enough to try it, please do. (The SVN is at the usual place on smf-media.com.)
It simply changes the SMF file edits to no longer tamper with Subs-Editor.php. Instead, it uses another way of detecting Wysiwyg embedding. I've tested on my site and it seems to work. Since I'm not in a hurry, I'd still like people to take their time and test it quietly. Thanks!

[Nao 尚]

@IceBurn> Sorry, it was my mistake... I'd forgotten that usually SMF stores URLs directly with the entity-encoded version of "&". Which means, the whole thing was looking for &s= and only found &s=...
I've updated the pattern and made sure that no other site had the problem.

Update your site with ;checkaeva at the end of the URL (on the topic page where you're testing your video.)

[CodeDev]

@IceBurn> Sorry, it was my mistake... I'd forgotten that usually SMF stores URLs directly with the entity-encoded version of "&". Which means, the whole thing was looking for &s= and only found &s=...
I've updated the pattern and made sure that no other site had the problem.

Update your site with ;checkaeva at the end of the URL (on the topic page where you're testing your video.)

Hello and thank you for your reply.

I've tried, but it hasn't updated. Also on Aeva-sites the pattern is the same, no changes have been made. Also tried to update via Admin, no success. 

[Nao 尚]

Download the Subs-Aeva-Sites.php manually from the mod page and make sure it has the updated pattern. You can replace it directly into your Generated file.

[Liam.]

Hello everyone,
I was thinking; sometimes I just want a link to be posted on my site, but sometimes embedded. Would it be possible to make AEVA so that you have to insert a BBCode around the link before it embeds it?

[CodeDev]

Download the Subs-Aeva-Sites.php manually from the mod page and make sure it has the updated pattern. You can replace it directly into your Generated file.

Is working now!

Thank you very much!

[CodeDev]

Hello again!

videos.sapo.pt is not working!

Can you please verify?

Thank you in advance.

[Nao 尚]

Can't you use YouTube like everyone else?

[CodeDev]

Can't you use YouTube like everyone else?

lol

Incredibly they also use YouTube once in a while!

[Nao 尚]

Okay, more seriously--

Use this fixed pattern for sapo.pt:

'pattern' => 'http://((?:\w{3,12}\.)*)sapo\.pt/([0-9a-z]{20})',

(You're lucky Tales of Monkey Island #4 isn't out yet )

[CodeDev]

Once again, thank you very much, it's working!

[Nao 尚]

And it was yet another mistake on my part (I'd put a {,2} in the pattern, thinking it would behave as a {0,2}, like {2,} means {2,infinity} but I was wrong... So I just put * and I was done ), like for tinypic, and again, there was no other site affected by this error. Are you testing the sites one by one to see which is broken, or what?

[CodeDev]

No, in fact I'm not but I can explain you why members use these two:

- TinyPic: I have made an option so users can upload images thought TinyPic, and sometimes they also use it to upload videos.

- Sapo: This is from Portugal, and so am I, my forum and most members, and it's common to use sapo to get the latest shows from Portuguese TV that you can't find in YouTube.

That's it!

[Rowdy]

Just because I know you always want to improve your mod Nao, would a version number for the site list be overkill?

[Sabre™]

Hi Nao,
I had a search through the thread, and didn't find anything related to my question.
My apologies if I missed it.
How would you go about hiding the 'video' link from the rss feed?
As it stands, every video link is displayed as such

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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTPpbHueNJ4" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTPpbHueNJ4</a>

Then the rest of the text is displayed here

Is it possible to remove the link?
Thanks in advance

[Jerri Blank]

I need a little help with Onion videos.  I posted this link:

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/how_to_find_a_masculine_halloween

The video doesn't embed, but the link with it works fine.  I've tried it with lookups enabled and disabled. (Other video sources that need lookups, like Youtube, are working fine.)

Any ideas? I just upgraded to the latest version.

Thanks!

[Nao 尚]

@Sabre> No, Aeva doesn't do that. Why should it? I don't see the point in feeding something else than the actual contents of the post... RSS feeds can handle it!

@Jerri> Use this movie instead:

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'movie' => 'http://www.theonion.com/content/themes/common/assets/onn_embed/embedded_player.swf?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theonion.com%2Fcontent%2Fthemes%2Fonion%2Fonn%2Fimages%2Fonn_banner.png&videoid=$2',