Please check this paragraph from document
allows you to specify the source rectangle within video content that should be rendered, effectively allowing you to zoom into video. The rectangle you specify is relative to a normalized rectangle (0,0,1,1) where 0,0 is the upper left hand of the frame and 1,1 specifies the full width and height of the frame. So, for example, to set the zoom rectangle so that the top-right quadrant of the video is rendered, you would specify the rectangle (.5,0,.5,.5). It is important that you check your values to make sure that your source rectangle is within the (0,0,1,1) normalized rectangle. Attempting to set a value outside of this range will cause an exception to be thrown.
So please set the Rect smaller than 1 in the double tap event.
private void _mediaPlayerElement_DoubleTapped(object sender, DoubleTappedRoutedEventArgs e)
{
_sourceRect = new Rect(0, 0, 0.5, 0.5);
_mediaPlayerElement.MediaPlayer.PlaybackSession.NormalizedSourceRect = _sourceRect;
}