I checked out the Video module for Drupal, but it doesn't really look like what I need. I prefer a 1:1 mapping for screencasts, which allows you to read menus and dialogs easily. Youtube doesn't really cut it. It's too small and the visual quality is pretty poor.

With the Video module I can only embed videos directly into the website, which isn't all that feasible since the videos will have rather big dimensions, which in turn may break the layout (or any future layouts). You can of course work around that with custom node types, which use a different theme. But that's way too fiddly.

The alternative? Grabbing a decent FLV player (I picked flowplayer), 21 lines of php and 3 lines of .htaccess. And that's it. Well, it's not that user friendly. I have to upload the FLVs plus some configuration file for each video manually via FTP, but I'm fine with that. The creation of a really short screencast with a length of 2-3 minutes takes already about 2-4 hours. One extra minute of fiddling won't hurt much. ;)

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