title: YouTube on Windows Phone with MediaElement
body: <p><a href="http://www.uxpassion.com/2009/08/silverlight-tutorial-play-hd-youtube-videos-silverlight/" rel="nofollow">This blog post</a> suggests that it might be possible to play YouTube videos with the Silverlight <code>MediaEelement</code> directly. </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;MediaElement HorizontalAlignment="Left"
  VerticalAlignment="Top"
  Source="http://www.youtube.com/get_video?
  video_id=8yuIw_0ejLs&amp;t=vjVQa1PpcFPrX3tFoahhu4DbniDIqTLkwybdm8xuCt8%3D&amp;fmt=22"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>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.</p>