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…
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…
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.
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….
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.