Would This Be Possible? (Video Related)

Hello, I was wondering if a person could say take a link of a video from a website, like say stage6 or youtube, and render the video or capture it some how from that page and render it into your own page using silverlight or something to display it? I want take make some sort of video web application, but Im not sure what i want it to do, I was thinking something like that, as i dont really want to host the videos, just provide links or ways to view them and such. (Like some kind of layer overtop combining all the popular video sites into one sort of.

Yes, that's certainly possible but might be a bit tricky. You would need to create what's called a scraper site, and I'll stay out of moral issues here since this is not a "post you moral opinions" site, if it was you'd get a lot of such opinions...

Do a search on google for asp.net and scraper. When done with your scraper solution just hook it up to a db to make it all searchable.

What you actually do in code is just read the html stream and decide on what you want on your site and not. Don't have any sample code as I've never done this, but have sometimes thought about it, for other reasons, like scraping info from newssites and such.

So, it's certainly doable if you've got a lot of time on your hands.

Cheers!

/Eskil