NicoNico Complex: NicoNico Douga Unlocked
- Categories: Meta, News
- Date: Jan 20, 2009 06:28 JST
- Tags: Internet, Meta, NicoNico Douga, Sankaku Complex, Video Gallery
We have received full embed permission from NicoNico Douga, which I believe is a first for an English language anime site, and quite possibly for a solely English language site too.
This took a fair bit of organisation, and a meeting at the Dwango (Nico) offices, so it is not hard to see why it is uncommon even amongst Japanese sites…
With this you can freely view videos from Nico embedded on our pages without an account or otherwise, and also you can freely post videos in the forums. Additional features are also planned.
Remarks & Explanation:
The interface to the external player should be simple enough – the “chick” icon in the bottom right corner will turn off the scrolling comments; in some videos they are highly recommended for visual effect, in others they are a distraction. Playing the video in question is accomplished using the triangular “play” icon, oddly.
If you click elsewhere in the window, you will be taken to the main Nico page for the video.
Commenting and other such functions are only possible whilst logged in, and from the Nico site itself – just click the window as usual to go to the relevant page.
You can also freely post videos from NicoNico Douga on the forums; see here for details.
If you have problems playing a video, please check below in the comments: you may need to disable certain anti-virus software’s referrer blocking features, and allow scripting for Nico (and here).
Please do not ask anyone involved with Sankaku Complex in an official capacity how to download videos from Nico. We will have no choice but to ignore any such questions.
The videos will be affected by the dreaded economy mode as usual; typically this runs from 1900-0200 JST (GMT +9), and depending on the video (especially popular ones) may result in dramatically reduced visual quality.
You can get round this by buying a NicoNico Douga premium membership (500JPY a month) – this will ensure full quality at all times both on Sankaku Complex and on Nico.
Expect further developments on the chart front when they are ready…
Gratuitous Nico videos are now provided by way of an exciting test; these are the all-time top 5 videos on Nico (in terms of playbacks, strange as they are):
1. 5,755,508
2. 5,327,052
3. 5,131,177
4. 4,841,635
5. 4,186,410
Let us choose to believe it is because they are old that they dominate so…
To Love-Ru Darkness Totally Tentacular
Ano Hana Naruko Anjo Anal Dress Figure
Top 10 Most Followed Seiyuu
Wonder Festival 2012 Winter Wondrous As Ever
Ciel nosurge: “Your Date With Ion = $170″
Nisemonogatari – “Where Did All The Ero Go!?”
Police Hunt Ushijima for “Public Indecency”
Cops Bust Cop in Nude BDSM Club Raid
K-ON! “Causes Keionbu Girl Band Boom”
Vippers vs Vankers: 2ch Targets “Korean Propaganda”
Overflow Delays “Final” Game: “We Are Not Going Bankrupt!”
Ritsu Topless Manga Time – “She Has Boobs After All!”
Top 10 Most Boring Anime of Winter 2012
Behold: The ONACOUNTER
Future Diary Unveils Eye-Popping Scenes of Sex & Guro
K-ON! Pilgrims Invade London
Top 10 Essential Anime Elements
Lolicon Teacher Rapes Pupils 37 Times, Faces 30 Years
Strike Witches Movie Trailer Unveiled
China Menaced by Exploding Coins
Wonder Festival 2012 Winter Cosplay
“Post The Highest Level Cosplay Ever!”
“Share The Cutest Cosplay Ever”
“Dolls vs Figures – Which is Best?”
“Why Do Girls Always Have Such Cute Rooms!?”
Ranka Lee Wedding Dress Cosplay by Tomia
Shoko-tan’s Madoka & Ika-chan Cosplay “Excessively Cute”
Guilty Crown Yuzuriha Inori Cosplay by Sasa
IdolMaster G4U: “Who Needs 3D Idols Now?”
Anegasaki Nene Cosplay by Rinami
Nicely done. Good job!
Awesome!
Videos from Nico load a lot faster than those mirrored here. Thanks for your continued efforts to make the site even better!
Ok about to give up and say fuck nico, it isnt worth all this trouble. Last shot. Heres a screen shot of what I'm seeing instead of the videos. I even disabled all my addons and tried internet explorer as well. No Dice
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/2887/11618454kd9.jpg
And just so you all know, i even reinstalled firefox and flash just to make sure it wasnt either of those
Lump, same problem. The text under each video is as follows:
申し訳ございませんが、お使いの環境ではご利用になれません。
リファラの送信を許可するか、ニコニコ動画上でご覧ください。
Unfortunately, your environment is not available.
To approve the sending of the referrer, please see the video in good humour.
Are you from Canada? Maybe they've set embedding up to only be available to IPs from specific countries...
Suffering from the very same issue. If its area related I'll go cry now. Updated everything and so on, so cant be that either (unless I'm missing something vital)
I'm in california so it cant be because of our area. I've tried everything I can think of to try and fix this =/
Anon dude 2 posts above, I have the misfortune of having norton as well. What exactly did you do to fix the problem?
I'm glad you all got it to work ok!
AH HA!
Alright, so my problem was this:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.sendRefererHeader
I always had it set to 1. I used to keep it at 0 but it broke too many sites that I use regularly. 2 is the default.
Opera and Explorer loaded up Sankaku just fine. This explains why...
If it's not working for -all- your browsers though I believe you have, as Artefact mentioned, some kind of program stripping the referer heading
Spent all morning messing with my browsers, to no success. What I finally noticed was my security settings on other applications such as firewall/antivirus. Having thought that this was all browserbased, I now hang my head in shame.
Anyhow, as Artefact said above, its about the refering part, and for instance Norton has that tucked away so that only advanced users actually get to fiddle with it, EVEN if you give sankaku/nico full rights to bypass the firewall. Also check your AV-suite for any browser security modules.
In the end it was a 1 minute fix, if I'd only thought of where to look.
It's your choice of software which is doing this - there are no IP restrictions.
You need to disable your overzealous referrer stripping package, whatever it is. It needs the referrer info to identify which domain you've come from, and whether that is an authorised one, otherwise anyone could post links to Nico and they would have no control.
FF and IE never strip referrers by default, you need to disable/add an exception to your plugin/security package. It's probably something along the lines of "prevent HTTP referrer being sent to external domains". Or perhaps make SC and NND trusted sites.
I believe a congratulatolary comment is much needed here .. so
Congratulation for being the pioneer (being the first english site with Nico vid) and keep up the good work :)
I have always want to watch video on Nico xd. May I ask what is the name of the song in the second video? Thanks.
GJ Artefact ;)
if you dont pay Nico videos play only in poor quality around 14:00-20:00 jap. time. with the time difference i rarely had a problem watching videos on HQ on my german account.
Hmm I dont know if i like the new player or not ~__~
what now i recieve a lower quality then before on sankaku ;(.
The vids artefact posted were better quality i think.
Amazing job Artefact.
This'll bring about so much respect to the site. It's amazing at how fast this site is growing. No doubt in my mind that this site will be one of the most visited for us types of people. Great job, and I'm sure you'll keep it up.
I fukken love Japanese Ronald McDonald. He looks like an even bigger pedo than the ones you see in American advertisements.
Oh wow. I was trying to find out how to work embeds for you guys (since a site I work on had the ability to embed NicoVideos), but I couldn't find exactly how it was coded. But I'm glad to see that you guys got it.
Need...to...hug...someone... OMG THANK YOU!
Yeah, I already had an account, so all I needed to do was click the the link and login, but this makes it so much easier! And man, getting embedded videos is pretty rigorous, but with all the bandwidth that's being used up on the site alone, I'm almost not surprised.
curses! now my method of downloading no longer works.
I've had an account on Nico for a while and occasionally watched some stuff (【汚部屋☆４７】rocks!) but I had no idea that Nico actually had some pretty restrictive external site embed policies. I was just happy with the past basic embedded videos on SanCon but this just makes it more fun. Thanks for all the work!
That is great to hear, Artefact. Congrats on getting the approval from Nico, now Sankaku will be over 9000!!!! I did want to register to Nico but didn't bother cause I can't freaking understand Japanase (well, I'm trying at least) but wow, never expect this to happen at all.....
Anyway, I would so totally donate to SC if I had money (and a credit card/paypal account) so like yeah, you guys totally deserve credit for the effort....
I'm able to watch videos on NND, but not here. Just has the comments and no sound/video. Using latest Opera and latest Flash.
I have the exact same problem with my firefox.
Did you allow for third party cookies setting to be on. Maybe your Opera browser have this setting turned off in options.
Where did you get the Miku pic at the top of the post from?
Oooh. Congratulations!
Will the 10 and 12 PM alert go off? hmm...
Congratulations! So many comments... hopefully someone can reply to this. Is the "original" for video 4(Kumikyoku?) still available somewhere? I'm not sure what is the "original"(audio or the background animated karaoke video), but I'm interested in the video.
I've been wanting to keep a copy of it in the best quality possible, but it seems like it's gone from Nico. There might be a better alternative as well. There's also Ryuuseigun and maybe other similar videos, but the original is the one I'm most interested in. Can these videos be bought in any form? Or if not, the audio?
If you go onto Youtube.com, and look for nico nico douga kumikyoku, there should be a group of three videos, all of that melody.
If you click onto those, you can find a symphonic version, the 'original sounds' version, and a no-vocal karaoke version.
But those are only audio, no video.
See if I get this straight.
If you watch Nico videos through Sankaku around 19:00-02:00 JST (GMT +9) you will get a poor quality version. Other times you will get the full version?
Yes, that's roughly the shape of things. The peak hours vary based on the number of users, so that should be a worst case scenario, and some less popular videos never go into economy mode as they are hosted on less busy servers.
Another job well done Artefact and co. keep up the good work! Another pleasant surprise today...
miku miku shite yanyo~
>_<
i love that song
anyone has translation?
yay!! now I can watch Nico vids :D
Oh man, that scrolling text is getting on my nerves.
Just click the chicken (?) image on bottom right corner
Then turn it off.
This is just epic wrin.
This is pretty cool that you got permission for such a thing. I suppose that is why (beyond the need for logging in to see the videos anyway) I never saw embeds for niconico stuff, hehe. Keep up the good times!
wierd videos, is the scrolling text similar to annotations in youtube or something like that?
Also congratz now everyone can enjoy animated dance routines!
Well the scrolling text is live comments from nico users. To illustrate this i have put the comment "Sankakucomplex!" at 0.00. you need an account at NicoNico Douga to be able to post comments as Artefact said
The scrolling text are actual comments to the video, and superior to Youtube's annotations.
Also, the comments have an entire scripting language built in (needs a premium account), which is how all the extreme ASCII art is created.
As I forgot to put in my last reply I have put it on the "Lets go Omyouji" video, thats the dancing priests.
Well that's just fantastic guys. Really.
Very awesome!
NicoNico seems to be reaching out lately... with the recent Microsoft Messenger shenanigans...
http://xspblog.com/2009/01/14/hatsune-miku-microsoft-messenger-x-nico-nico-douga/
Which is awesome! I'd like to be able to embed NicoNico videos on my blog too, but first I need to get out of WordPress.com...
They don't deal with individuals at all; I think this is what keeps most of the sites out. I doubt they accept "overseas" concerns, but I don't know about this. Some of the big Japanese blog hosts offer it though, so those are an option.
YES
okay, now i like sankacom even more. thanks to artefact. hopefully someday you can make nico2 english version (since they already have taiwan, spain, and german)
That's one small step for NicoNico, one giant leap for Sankaku Complex
Surely you mean the converse.
Awesome, I love this site even more :p
Problems with Opera? I get a white screen only.
Same here, Opera 9.63 and working.
Same here, Opera 9.63. Works perfectly.
Check so that you haven't disabled anything in Opera, or have some strange program set to play .swf files.
Sure you have the latest Flash and scripting on? Opera is supported by their player as far as I can see, so the problem looks to be on your end...
I just upgradet from 9.60 to 9.63 and reinstalled flash player 10 -- very unfunny. I will have to search for a solution.
I'm using Opera 9.63 and it works for me.
yay nico for all, somewhat.
As Borat would say, "GREAT SUCCESS!"
おめでとうございます！ お祝い (^ω^)
The only problem I can see against this, is that if the video gets taken off Nico, you won't be able to watch it. Whereas in the previous video posts, there is a copy of the removed video on here.
Just to name a view, like the Clammad Fantasy and Minorin Fantasy videos have been removed, and a certain riding video.
I suppose I'll just have to download the videos of Nico while I can before they get taken down for some odd reason..
If this is the case we will take the liberty of mirroring it, so you needn't worry.
You're the best!
Thank you so much.
This site is great!
Did I mention that I love you?
Someone just got slightly more Internet-important! Cheers!
wow congrats. So all it takes is posting the link? Never noticed any embed code on the video pages.
They only do embeds with sites they have approved and signed a contract with.
well la-dee-da!
Man, did this cost anything?
The only drawback I see is that the videos mirrored here always were premium quality. It was a nice way for me to sidestep this limitation of the free account. But oh well, long live Sankaku Complex!!!
This frees up bandwidth for our other services (Sankaku Channel) so it has its silver lining.
Yeah, no offense to you or the site, but to be perfectly honest the Sankaku hosted videos took forever to buffer...
Hopefully this'll help the site, bandwidth wise.
Their performance varied hugely, and when a thousand people try to stream at once problems ensue, we were aware of this. They were always more intended as a mirror rather than a primary resource, so now with the bulk on Nico things should have no trouble.
Congratulations Artefact this is the best thing you've done since the
"So you’re saying a naked maid ceases to be a maid? I believe she probably once had the rest of the outfit…" comment.
(http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2008/12/15/maid-idol-cosplay-gallery/)
Totally loving it, video and sound quality are very good and I don't need to refresh the page a zillion times for flash to show up. (the linux flash player isn't exactly the best application ever written)
lol @ CC
Do you have a whole text file full of favorite Artefact comments, or what?
:D
I think I love you.
Great Sankaku accomplishment~ freaking awesome XD
Gar! Just after I registered an account at Nico anyway...
Well, this is still very nice. Thanks for your hard work, Artefact.
So just so that I'm completely understanding though, I embeded a video on my blog from Miku Miku Druaga a while back an it left a small box with a forwarding link to the video, where 6% of my blog readers would probably ever get to see it.
This however is much different from the videos with the full playback functionality I see on this site.
I need to go sleep with someone with Nico to get the video playback screens now?
Just sleeping with them is not good enough. There are contracts.
Ugh, they couldn't make it easy, could they?
This is so much of an epic win!
We love you so much Sankaku Complex!
Congrats! Now it's time to do omyouji exercise in video2.
I'm a bit confused atm, on the page i see all the japanese at the bottom of your post with each of the 5 videos, yet when i click on them i guess i go to the log in page for nico. Not quite sure what i have to do to make the videos viewable like any other embeded video.
Just to clarify, I dont see any videos, I only see links
Click on the "play" button, not the links.
Passing referrer information to specific Web pages in Norton Internet Security..
Yes, you need to disable your silly overzealous referrer stripping package. It needs the referrer info to identify which domain you've come from, and whether that is an authorised one.
There is no play button. This is what i see
1. 5,755,508
【初音ミク】みくみくにしてあげる♪【してやんよ】
申し訳ございませんが、お使いの環境ではご利用になれません。
リファラの送信を許可するか、ニコニコ動画上でご覧ください。
2. 5,327,052
新・豪血寺一族 -煩悩解放 - レッツゴー！陰陽師
申し訳ございませんが、お使いの環境ではご利用になれません。
リファラの送信を許可するか、ニコニコ動画上でご覧ください。
3. 5,131,177
M.C.ドナルドはダンスに夢中なのか？最終鬼畜道化師ドナルド・Ｍ
申し訳ございませんが、お使いの環境ではご利用になれません。
リファラの送信を許可するか、ニコニコ動画上でご覧ください。
4. 4,841,635
組曲『ニコニコ動画』
申し訳ございませんが、お使いの環境ではご利用になれません。
リファラの送信を許可するか、ニコニコ動画上でご覧ください。
5. 4,186,410
アイドルマスター KOTOKO Princess Bride!
申し訳ございませんが、お使いの環境ではご利用になれません。
リファラの送信を許可するか、ニコニコ動画上でご覧ください。
Conspiracy! Conspiracy I tell you! Why all of the suddenly did they decide to this. Did sankaku send a letter of request so they can broadcast nicovideo? I think it must be a couple posts [the conspiring plot ones and the haruhi-chan one]struck a nerve on niconico. Conspiracy!
But Amen for niconico. I'm happy for them for taking a more aggressive approach.
I still don't get this rule on :
"1. Please do not post any videos from Nico alongside (in the same thread as) ero or guro content. This violates the terms of our agreement, so we will have to remove any such errant videos."
The front page on sankaku already contain some ero content what do they mean? Doesn't that mean the 1st rule is already violated?
What? Of course we had to approach them and sign a contract.
The front page doesn't contain any "ero" content, just risque or suggestive content. You will not see any Nico videos residing in the same posts as highly erotic content. This has all been discussed and cleared, so it's nothing you need worry about.
But did they made 1st move? What do you mean "had"?
For him to use embedded Nico videos on this blog he had to sign a contract with Nicovideo to allow him to do so. I assume that would've required him to meet with a Nico rep to get it all panned out.
ok, finally fixed the darn thing. What you have to do is go to status and settings under the norton internet security menu panel. You have to totally disable the privacy control option or else it will block all data from being sent out, even if you have it on the lowest setting.
TL;DR- Turn off the privacy control and bam, it works
Yes, we had to have a meeting where everything was discussed and so forth.
bravo!
im sure other big anime sites will be sure to follow.
well, those with connections in japan.
Don't hold your breath.
Is there a way to make the video full screen? I don't see a button for it.
Their player doesn't support this.
Gyabo!