silverlight - YouTube on Windows Phone with MediaElement

Question

This blog post suggests that it might be possible to play YouTube videos with the Silverlight MediaEelement directly.

<MediaElement HorizontalAlignment="Left"
VerticalAlignment="Top"
Source="http://www.youtube.com/get_video?
video_id=8yuIw_0ejLs&t=vjVQa1PpcFPrX3tFoahhu4DbniDIqTLkwybdm8xuCt8%3D&fmt=22"/>

I was wondering if this holds true for the Windows Phone 7. I have an application that is based on playing videos hosted on YouTube, and it would be nice to be able to have more control over the video experience other than just launching the browser with the YouTube video URL.

Answer 1

Unless you have a direct link to video content, you cannot display YouTube videos on Windows Phone 7. As far as I know, get_video is no longer available for public access.