Question

How can I play YouTube videos in a Windows 8 html/javascript app? I have the clip’s id and I just want to play it. Perhaps via html5’s video tag?

I’ve tried the iframe api, but failed to get it to work. I’ve also made a try on the javascript api, but it failed to load javascript from anther location.

Any help on the subject would be very appreciated!

Answer 1

I developed a YouTube class for Windows Phone which gets the MP4 link of a YouTube movie. Maybe you can use this code and start the video app with the MP4 link or set the source of a media element (if existent in Win8)?

If there’s a way to start the video app with a predefined MP4-URL I can rewrite the code for Windows 8.

http://mytoolkit.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=YouTube

UPDATE: I’ve updated the code. Now simply load the URL with this async method:

var url = await YouTube.GetVideoUriAsync("youtube_id");
myMediaElement.Source = url.Uri;

myMediaElement is a XAML MediaElement control.

Check out the whole library from the project’s Subversion repository: http://mytoolkit.codeplex.com

Update: Sorry it’s C# only, you have to port it to Javascript…