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Old 06-28-2010, 08:18 PM   #1
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Linux software that does comments on video like Nico Nico Douga


Hello,

If anyone is familiar with Nico Nico Douga (NND), it's a Japanese website that allows users to comment on videos and their comments actually appear on the video as it plays. Think YouTube with feedback. Does anyone know of software on Linux that would accomplish this? Say I have a LAMP server and I wanted to host videos and do the same thing as Nico Nico Douga. Anyone know how to accomplish this? Adding comments to videos can be done with any video editing software out there. What NND does is allows for comments to be dynamically superimposed over videos on a website.

Here's a link describing what NND is like. http://d.hatena.ne.jp/metagold/20080513/1210650303
 
Old 06-30-2010, 04:32 PM   #2
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Hmm. I went to the site to check it out, but they don't seem to allow you to actually view their content unless you sign up. Or at least I couldn't figure out any way to access any actual videos...and I can read a fair bit of the language.

But from the description, it sounds to me like they're using custom-made flash video player software of some kind. Certainly it has nothing to do with editing the video itself, and is probably more akin to YouTube's annotation feature. I also don't know whether the software is completely server-based or requires a customized client as well. In any case I'll hazard a guess that there probably aren't any off-the-shelf implementations available for it...at least not yet.
 
Old 07-01-2010, 10:38 AM   #3
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Hmm. I went to the site to check it out, but they don't seem to allow you to actually view their content unless you sign up. Or at least I couldn't figure out any way to access any actual videos...and I can read a fair bit of the language.
Yeah, I saw your location as being Osaka. Sweet!

You do have to sign up to use NND. There was a Youtube video someone posted but it looks like it violated copyright.

Here's an example of what it looks like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XxeDGYlPfI This one won't get removed, but it's a fake NND video.
 
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Well, it's not so much the videos themselves I was interested in, but the nature of the video client. I wanted to see if they used the stock flashplayer or something else as the embedded client. But sites that require you to go through a whole sign-up rigamarole just to check out their basic services (or other short-term use such as posting a single comment on a single blog post) extremely irritate me, so I'm not going there.

Not that I'm particularly interested in the concept anyway; it feels to me like a gimmick that would get very old very quickly, and mostly just distracts from the main content of the video itself. Perhaps if the comments were in a separate scrolling box on the side or something it would be better.

But then again I've found that my tastes generally run counter to the mainstream much of the time, so who am I to say?
 
  


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