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Nico Nico Guide III : Basics in Browsing Nicovideo
Normally, you watch videos in Nicovideo by clicking the links posted in various sites. But if you want to browse the site on your own, here are a few basic things you need to know when you do. There is also the very important My Page, which is essential to those who watch live broadcasts and who have joined communities. This is a very basic guide to them and how to use them.
1. Nico Nico Douga Main Page
The new version of the Nico Nico Douga main page looks similar to YAHOO!, with all the important sub-categories, featured stuff and announcement in one page. Look at THIS SCREENCAP for a guide.
- VIDEOS is where you can watch your usual uploads.
- IMAGES is where you'll find fanart and pictures.
- LIVE BROADCASTS or namahousou is where you listen to personalities real time, this includes concerts, live events or simply personal broadcasts.
- APPLICATIONS are games and other miscellaneous stuff you can tinker/play with.
- CHANNELS are grouped namahousou under a label or company.
- ENCYCLOPEDIA is where you can read about personalities, memes and terminologies in NND.
- MARKET has various items for sale.
- ADVERTISEMENTS is the place where you can pay to support/bump/promote your favorite video.
- RL SPOTS list certain TV and RADIO programs and real-time comments to them.
- COMMONS is where you can download works under the creative commons license.
- COMMUNITIES is where you can join various fan groups or official communities of personalities and units.
- NICO NICO DVDs is where you can watch movies while seeing other people's comments on it.
- NICO NICO STORE is where NND-related goods are sold.
- NICO NICO GAMES is where you can play and create games.
- MOBILE is the website for cellphones and other mobile devices\
- NEWS has all the updates and recent information about the site.
The rest are pretty self-explanatory. Note the top bar where you can access your MYPAGE. Click on it and you'll see THIS SCREENCAP.
2. MY PAGE
Again, you'll be seeing THIS SCREENCAP in your interface when you access your mypage. My Page is an important part of your Nico Nico Douga stay because it has EVERYTHING you need to organize, schedule and remember your activities.
The top bar has your name, your ID number as well as your status if you're a free or paid user, your EXP points which you earn by doing various things in the site, and your Nico Nico points which you need to watch concerts and certain events (you can buy it using the same method as paying for a paid account).
Your left column has your user icon (if you uploaded any), the link to your public profile as well as the option to fill it out and set which can be seen by other people, your account preferences and your payment preferences if you are to pay for a paid account.
The lower part has your menu. When you click on one, their contents will appear on the large space at the right:
- NICO NICO REPORT contains all the recent activities from people you follow, communities you've joined and friends you have followed.
- MYLIST has all your mylist folders as well as your recent additions to them.
- WATCHLIST lists all the activities of the people you put in your watch list.
- COMMUNITIES lists all the communities you have joined as well as the recent activities in them.
- CHANNELS lists all the channels you have subscribed to as well as the recent activities in them.
- UPLOADED VIDEOS are all the videos you have uploaded yourself in NND.
- STAMP LOG is your collection of stamps, which you earn by doing certain activities in the site.
- FRIENDS lists all your friends, of course.
- ACTIVITY LOG lists EVERYTHING you've done in the site from the videos you've watched to the videos you have mylisted, etc.
The lowest part of the left column has the ongoing namahousou listed. Clicking on the link at the lowest part will give you a full list of the namahousou you've timeshifted, namahousou which are ongoing and namahousou that you can timeshift (from communities you've joined only).
The rest are pretty self-explanatory w.
3. Watching a Video
Now that we're done with the main page and your my page, let's do some searching. Here's a typical results page when you search for a term (in this case, "magnet").
Pardon the small size. Anyway, when you search for something and it generates a lot of results, there are various ways to arrange the results depending on how you want them. The options are in the drop-down box at the top of the video lists. This is a closer look plus their translations:
When you click on a video, this is what you'll see. Click for larger size.
The top part, which is not seen, includes the TITLE of the video, the COMMUNITY which the uploader belongs to, plus the BLURB or uploader's notes. The notes usually include the uploader's MYLIST, the original video if the video is a cover, other sites related to the uploader and credits for images, videos and other stuff. At the rightmost part, you'll see the name of the uploader plus a link to his/her profile.
The topmost part of the video lists the tags. Tags, some of them, are important because they have the singer name, the category name and other information you need to know about the video which can help you in looking for related videos. You can click on the tags for similar videos. The red icons beside them lead to Nicopedia entries on them, if they have any.
The right part of the tags has three buttons. One is for support (where you will pay for the video's bump/promotion), the mylist button (where you can mylist the video to a folder you assigned) and the temporary mylist button which just mylists the video outside your folders. You can assign it to a proper folder later on in your MYPAGE.
The rest are pretty self-explanatory. You can type your comments in the white box under the video. You can read the comments at the right side of the video. NG Comments are those viewers marked as offensive and rude. BTW, at the bottom of the video part, right above the comment bar, you'll see these options:
The first one allows you to loop the video endlessly (if you are a premium account). The second option (the dialog cloud with ....) allows you to turn scrolling comments on and off. The third one changes the size of the video window and the last one opens the video on a separate page.
The bar below the comment box has your list of applications. When you click on one, you can play it on the side (over the comments) while the video is playing. The bar lower than the Nico apps are those buttons you can use to share the video.
- MEMORY is for remembering comments in the video that you like. When you click on it, the video will reload but each comment will have a checkbox. You check the comment/s you like, click confirm and it'll be saved in your list.
- EMBED is a page containing various ways for you to embed the video on your site. Note that not all websites can embed nicovids.
- MIXI Check is embedding the nicovideo in your mixi.
- TWEET is of course, tweeting a link to your account. You need to enroll your twitter account to be able to do this option.
ETA: For Firefox (Greasemonkey needed) or Google Chrome users, you can install this script on your browsers which translates a lot of the parts of the Nico Nico Douga interface.
And those are probably the only things you have to know when watching videos in Nico Nico Douga. There are other options like Osusume (or ADS) and related videos, but you'll get to know them later on as you explore the site :)!
Thank you for the help!
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1. Nico Nico Douga Main Page
The new version of the Nico Nico Douga main page looks similar to YAHOO!, with all the important sub-categories, featured stuff and announcement in one page. Look at THIS SCREENCAP for a guide.
- VIDEOS is where you can watch your usual uploads.
- IMAGES is where you'll find fanart and pictures.
- LIVE BROADCASTS or namahousou is where you listen to personalities real time, this includes concerts, live events or simply personal broadcasts.
- APPLICATIONS are games and other miscellaneous stuff you can tinker/play with.
- CHANNELS are grouped namahousou under a label or company.
- ENCYCLOPEDIA is where you can read about personalities, memes and terminologies in NND.
- MARKET has various items for sale.
- ADVERTISEMENTS is the place where you can pay to support/bump/promote your favorite video.
- RL SPOTS list certain TV and RADIO programs and real-time comments to them.
- COMMONS is where you can download works under the creative commons license.
- COMMUNITIES is where you can join various fan groups or official communities of personalities and units.
- NICO NICO DVDs is where you can watch movies while seeing other people's comments on it.
- NICO NICO STORE is where NND-related goods are sold.
- NICO NICO GAMES is where you can play and create games.
- MOBILE is the website for cellphones and other mobile devices\
- NEWS has all the updates and recent information about the site.
The rest are pretty self-explanatory. Note the top bar where you can access your MYPAGE. Click on it and you'll see THIS SCREENCAP.
2. MY PAGE
Again, you'll be seeing THIS SCREENCAP in your interface when you access your mypage. My Page is an important part of your Nico Nico Douga stay because it has EVERYTHING you need to organize, schedule and remember your activities.
The top bar has your name, your ID number as well as your status if you're a free or paid user, your EXP points which you earn by doing various things in the site, and your Nico Nico points which you need to watch concerts and certain events (you can buy it using the same method as paying for a paid account).
Your left column has your user icon (if you uploaded any), the link to your public profile as well as the option to fill it out and set which can be seen by other people, your account preferences and your payment preferences if you are to pay for a paid account.
The lower part has your menu. When you click on one, their contents will appear on the large space at the right:
- NICO NICO REPORT contains all the recent activities from people you follow, communities you've joined and friends you have followed.
- MYLIST has all your mylist folders as well as your recent additions to them.
- WATCHLIST lists all the activities of the people you put in your watch list.
- COMMUNITIES lists all the communities you have joined as well as the recent activities in them.
- CHANNELS lists all the channels you have subscribed to as well as the recent activities in them.
- UPLOADED VIDEOS are all the videos you have uploaded yourself in NND.
- STAMP LOG is your collection of stamps, which you earn by doing certain activities in the site.
- FRIENDS lists all your friends, of course.
- ACTIVITY LOG lists EVERYTHING you've done in the site from the videos you've watched to the videos you have mylisted, etc.
The lowest part of the left column has the ongoing namahousou listed. Clicking on the link at the lowest part will give you a full list of the namahousou you've timeshifted, namahousou which are ongoing and namahousou that you can timeshift (from communities you've joined only).
The rest are pretty self-explanatory w.
3. Watching a Video
Now that we're done with the main page and your my page, let's do some searching. Here's a typical results page when you search for a term (in this case, "magnet").
Pardon the small size. Anyway, when you search for something and it generates a lot of results, there are various ways to arrange the results depending on how you want them. The options are in the drop-down box at the top of the video lists. This is a closer look plus their translations:
When you click on a video, this is what you'll see. Click for larger size.
The top part, which is not seen, includes the TITLE of the video, the COMMUNITY which the uploader belongs to, plus the BLURB or uploader's notes. The notes usually include the uploader's MYLIST, the original video if the video is a cover, other sites related to the uploader and credits for images, videos and other stuff. At the rightmost part, you'll see the name of the uploader plus a link to his/her profile.
The topmost part of the video lists the tags. Tags, some of them, are important because they have the singer name, the category name and other information you need to know about the video which can help you in looking for related videos. You can click on the tags for similar videos. The red icons beside them lead to Nicopedia entries on them, if they have any.
The right part of the tags has three buttons. One is for support (where you will pay for the video's bump/promotion), the mylist button (where you can mylist the video to a folder you assigned) and the temporary mylist button which just mylists the video outside your folders. You can assign it to a proper folder later on in your MYPAGE.
The rest are pretty self-explanatory. You can type your comments in the white box under the video. You can read the comments at the right side of the video. NG Comments are those viewers marked as offensive and rude. BTW, at the bottom of the video part, right above the comment bar, you'll see these options:
The first one allows you to loop the video endlessly (if you are a premium account). The second option (the dialog cloud with ....) allows you to turn scrolling comments on and off. The third one changes the size of the video window and the last one opens the video on a separate page.
The bar below the comment box has your list of applications. When you click on one, you can play it on the side (over the comments) while the video is playing. The bar lower than the Nico apps are those buttons you can use to share the video.
- MEMORY is for remembering comments in the video that you like. When you click on it, the video will reload but each comment will have a checkbox. You check the comment/s you like, click confirm and it'll be saved in your list.
- EMBED is a page containing various ways for you to embed the video on your site. Note that not all websites can embed nicovids.
- MIXI Check is embedding the nicovideo in your mixi.
- TWEET is of course, tweeting a link to your account. You need to enroll your twitter account to be able to do this option.
ETA: For Firefox (Greasemonkey needed) or Google Chrome users, you can install this script on your browsers which translates a lot of the parts of the Nico Nico Douga interface.
And those are probably the only things you have to know when watching videos in Nico Nico Douga. There are other options like Osusume (or ADS) and related videos, but you'll get to know them later on as you explore the site :)!
Thank you for the help!
-
rmarques
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Hi
(Anonymous) 2011-02-08 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)Re: Hi
http://i56.tinypic.com/zugqhy.png
^^; I dunno if there is a way to get to profiles directly...
You can click on the names of users in your friends and watchlists.
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(Anonymous) 2011-07-03 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)i made an account but am really confused since i can't read japanese D:
ah yes and thank you for the information (: it's been really helpful!(:
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(Anonymous) 2011-07-04 01:48 am (UTC)(link)ETA: For Firefox (Greasemonkey needed) or Google Chrome users, you can install this script on your browsers which translates a lot of the parts of the Nico Nico Douga interface.
https://github.com/Danneh/NicoNicoEn
i'd like to use this since i can't read japanese so it'll be really helpful if you could teach me how to use it? ><
Thanks so much!
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(Anonymous) 2011-07-11 05:14 am (UTC)(link)erm... why are there times where i can't see the comments and can't comment?
A notice will come out and the box to comment will be blocked and the comments box is empty >
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There are a few reasons why your comment won't go through
1. You commented too many times in a row, so you're blocked for a bit because you're spamming
2. Sometimes you can't comment the same thing too many times in a row. Even if it's just "wwwwww" or "8888888". Try varying the length of "w" or "8"'s and the comment should go through.
3. A bit unsure on this one, but it's possible in crowded namas, the comment server is just overloaded with the amount of comments going through. Just wait a bit and try again :3
4. Some words are "NG" and are blocked. You might be able to see your comment appear on the screen, but no one else can't because it's been blocked. (Using Nico Nama Comment Viewer will let you know if you NG-ed). A lot of unexpected words are blocked, so you just gotta remember which ones. Words with "av" like "have" are blocked because AV can stand for adult video ^^;;
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(Anonymous) 2011-07-15 06:50 am (UTC)(link)i dont get this as often now but i still see it occasionally ):
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff24/pmin64/Screenshot2011-07-15atAM104414.png
i dont actually comment much, not knowing japanese and all..
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http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/36/screenshot194g.png/
It worked till now but suddenly not do u know why or what is the problem?=(^.^)=
Thank you!
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If there isn't one listed, they probably don't want to be contacted by fans.
How do you subscribe to users on nico nico douga?
(Anonymous) 2011-12-06 07:23 am (UTC)(link)Re: How do you subscribe to users on nico nico douga?
One way is to join their community, as shown in this guide http://ofurotaimu.dreamwidth.org/84319.html
Community updates can be sent in a daily newsletter of sorts (called a Nico Report) to your email. Also if you install Nico Live Alert, you can be alerted for namahousous.
Another thing you can do, is if you can find that person's profile on Nico Nico Douga, you can actually put them on your "watch list". Their updates will be shown on your Watch List on your Mypage.
For example here's Gero's profile on NND: http://www.nicovideo.jp/user/190917 . To add him to your watch list, click on the button that looks like this http://i43.tinypic.com/23wm9hf.png . To go to your Watch List on your Mypage, go to this link http://www.nicovideo.jp/my/watchlist . When he uploads a video for example, it will appear on this watch list.
Personally I find it easier to follow utaite on Twitter to keep track of them, but this way works too :)
Subscribe = joined community?
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First time using a net ticket
First to arrive to a user's namahousou
Continued premium membership
Viewed a video on a mobile device
Linking PC and mobile
Used an application
Commented on a new video
Frequent visitor
Downloaded Niconama Alert
Somewhat frequent visitor
Mylisted a new video
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register video under the parent video in content tree
(Anonymous) 2014-12-27 03:09 am (UTC)(link)