Pre Sales Ramblings

[Mr Monster]

Hello vB.org peeps,

I have just taken a job and one of my first assignments is to implement a forum.

I have used free versions of several forums like phpnuke and phpbulletin but always felt something was missing. I guess you get what you pay for!

With my new employment, money seems to not be an issue so I suggested vBulletin to the owner. I have heard great things about it and as a member on several forums that use vBulletin I must say that I like vB very much. Fact is I am ready to purchase it now, however there is one issue that needs resolution before we purchase.

I am having a hard time finding a exact answer to this question. I have spent some time trying to find it in the forum with no luck.

Q: The owner NEEDS to have the ability to allow members to upload video from several sources such as YouTube, LiveLeak etc. It seems that this can be done however, the owner wants to embed from our server. Example, I am a member, I upload a video from facebook to NewSiteImBuilding.com, facebook deletes video and it is no longer available on NewSiteImBuilding.com due to the fact that facebook servers were hosting the video and now it's gone.

Is it possible to host the video on our servers from just embedding from another site?

I know that I can use phpMotion to host in this fashion but we just want to use vB and avoid running 2 sites or trying to integrate/bridge user databases (making users sign up at 2 sites)

I guess what I'm trying to say is:
1) We grab a video from YouTube
2) Embed it on our site
3) Upon embedding it also uploads it to our server
4) we now host the video as well as youtube
5) YouTube deletes video but it is still available on our site

I understand if we embed from another site and they delete it the link will be broken and I know that it won't fix itself so perhaps it is not embedding that we want but upload video option.

I just don't think (AME) will do this exactly as we intend.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. I hope this makes sense.