How to upload videos to Nicovideo.jp

Date February 2, 2008

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Nicovideo.jp is as many of you know the equivalent of youtube, but for Japan. It has comments scrolling over video and is more anonymous, just like many japanese want it to be. It also allows longer videos than youtube.

This post will describe how to upload videos to nicovideo.jp!

    Step 2: Go to smilevideo.jp and log in with your nicovideo.jp account information. The top box is your email and the bottom one is your password. You will be taken to a page that looks somewhat like this:

smilevideo upload page 1

    Step 3: Press the link called “動画の新規アップロード” which I have outlined in red. You will be taken to a page which has an EULA and settings for your video. You can now chose a video (DivX/XviD/MPEG1/MPEG2/WMV max 100Mb and FLV max 40Mb), if it’s 4:3 (fullscreen) or 16:9 (widescreen).
    Step 4: Press the bottom button when you are done doing that and press OK to confirm that you want to upload the video. Wait a bit until the video is uploaded.
    Step 5: You will be taken to an encoding queue after you’re done uploading the video. There are 139 people in the queue as I’m waiting:

smilevideo encoding

    Step 6: Chose a frame to represent your video, enter a title and a description and a category in the drop down box and then click the button.

You’re done!

Please upload a lot of moe videos, but be sure to not upload duplicates, ok?

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28 Responses to “How to upload videos to Nicovideo.jp”

  1. LookKhun said:

    Thank you so much! >__<

  2. BDeaNelson said:

    When I press the upload button and then ok, the website seems to be “sending request to smile video” indefinately with no sign of upload progress. Do you know what the problem could be?

  3. desu said:

    Are you sure that it is not uploading the video? It usually takes a really long time for large files.
    I have also had some problems with certain web-browsers, such as Safari, that have trouble uploading files through web-forms. Maybe you can try another browser?

  4. anonymus said:

    it wont let me in with my nico account. i tried it several times to rule any small faults i could have made out…. but it still wont log me in. :/

  5. desu said:

    Are you sure that you are logging in with first your EMAIL (xxx@xxx.xxx) and then your password?

    A lot of people try to log in with their username, which does not work.
    Smilevideo.jp was also down some hours last weekend.

  6. anonymus said:

    yeah of course, the same way i log in at nico. i even wrote it in a notepad file and copy past it… it worked for nico but didnt work for smilevideo.

    well i dont want to bother you with this. ill try making a new account and try it again. thanks anyway :)

  7. desu said:

    It is really strange that it doesn’t work. What the heck.

  8. anonymus said:

    so it worked this time :) thank you for your guide
    but i still have one question… how do i add tags to my video? atm its only アニメ

  9. desu said:

    Click the red link next to the tags and then write in the tags you want. Separate them with spaces to add more than one at once. You can lock some tags by clicking the “star” to the right of them in the list. When you are done adding tags, click the bigger button below.

    More info about finding your way around nicovideo here:
    http://moemania.org/internet-story/nicovideo-navigation/

  10. desu said:

    Here are some easier instructions to follow:
    http://moemania.org/internet-story/nicovideo-editing-tags/

  11. Mitsuki said:

    Can you tell me which catagory is which, like when submitting it to a category, because my Nico Nico Douga account got suspended, and I think it’s because I uploaded a video to the wrong category…

  12. desu said:

    It might be easier for you if you change the language to Spanish. English-speaking people can usually guess which categories are which: http://moemania.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/nicocatspain.png

  13. Minato-kun said:

    Can anyone tell me if there’s a problem with my upload?
    Progress bar at the bottom of the screen is loading fairly quickly, but it stays at full and doesn’t load any further.
    Is it still loading,? Or has the page crashed?
    Sorry bout this, I’m still a newbie when it comes to Nico Video……

    Thanks in advance!!

  14. Minato-kun said:

    -_-” Uh… ok.
    It just sent me back to the SMILE VIDEO main page ……
    no message or anything, it just switched……

  15. Minato-kun said:

    Never mind! It is working fine now!

  16. desu said:

    You usually just have to wait until it’s done, haha :)
    I wonder what people are uploading though~

  17. Mitsuki said:

    Wait a minute… Nicovideo doesn’t support avi files?

    This could be a real problem…

  18. desu said:

    avi is just a wrapping. Nicovideo supports avi-wrapped DIVX, XVID encoded files, so it should be ok.

  19. Anonymous said:

    Is there a way to make my video clearer? It is a little fuzzy and blurry after uploading it to Nico Nico.

  20. desu said:

    Make sure that you’re not watching it during economy-time that starts around 19.00 japanese time. What settings were you using? Best is to use a mp4 encoded file with the maximum bitrate of 600 Kbps for normal users. Also make sure that the video is 512×384(4:3) or 512×288(16:9).
    Source: http://nicowiki.com/encode.html

  21. Anonymous said:

    Oh, thank you for answering my question! It helped! May I also ask this: Can you comment on your own video? Will it look different from the rest of the comments?

  22. desu said:

    Yeah, you can and it won’t look different at all. You can notice if the same person comments on the video by clicking the No Good User button and looking at the hash-code, but I doubt someone does that.

  23. HJ said:

    any limit on the size of mpeg file that can be uploaded? want to upload an mpeg file that is already on youtube at nico nico, but get a message saying file is too big – any suggestions?

  24. desu said:

    FLV can be about ~40MB and MP4 should be about ~40MB too while other formats can reach a maximum of ~100MB.

  25. pentomino said:

    I’ve tried uploading a few things, but I’m not certain that it’s publishing them. When I edit individual videos, they show up as public, but when I go to “Mí página” in Niconico, it shows up as “No publicar” and doesn’t seem to offer a way to change it.

  26. desu said:

    All videos should be public automatically if you haven’t specifically chosen not to have them so.

  27. TakaGo said:

    When I press the upload button, it leaves me at the same page, but at the bottom taskbar, it says “sending request to http://www.smilevideo.jp. After like 2hours is brings me straight back to Smile Video home page. What happened?

    Also, how do I navigate to my own videos?

  28. desu said:

    It probably timed out. This can happen if the upload is too slow, but to be sure, login to your account at http://www.smilevideo.jp/ to see all of your uploaded videos.

    You can also access your uploaded videos here http://www.nicovideo.jp/myvideo/

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