Video Stream - Availability

[Gurowake 4,088]

Can anyone provide help for someone with no familiarity in Japanese to get Niji to work? I managed to install it, but once installed I couldn't make much sense of anything. Hitting the play button popped up a screen where it looked like I needed to log in, but I had no idea how to register. I hit random buttons whose functions were unclear and really didn't get anywhere. Others said they could do registration in English, but that doesn't seem possible right now. Maybe I'm in the wrong place? I went to the website that was linked previously in this thread.

[Asashosakari 19,441]

Niji uses http://www.appnnn.com/, just register an account there and use the email address and password inside the Niji application.

[Asojima 2,874]

On Niji, I am now getting a blue box with 2 lines of text near the top of the NHK G channel. It will be a pain while watching Sumo. Is it removable?

[Kintamayama 45,252]

Blue thingy annoying-the only channel that has it. Feed very choppy today-we may have to go old school again this basho..

[Jakusotsu 5,986]

After updating Niji to Version 2.0.4, the video area remains grey and then the app crashes completely after 10-20 seconds (using Win7).

Anyone else having this problem?

[torquato 1,075]

  On 10/05/2014 at 05:17, Asojima said:

On Niji, I am now getting a blue box with 2 lines of text near the top of the NHK G channel. It will be a pain while watching Sumo. Is it removable?

No. It has nothing to do with the update. The original source of the video feed just forgot to switch off epg / teletext programme information display. I'm sure it will go away sooner or later, when the uploader discovers...

[Asojima 2,874]

  On 10/05/2014 at 11:02, Jakusotsu said:

After updating Niji to Version 2.0.4, the video area remains grey and then the app crashes completely after 10-20 seconds (using Win7).

Anyone else having this problem?

Had the same problem at first. After a reboot and a few tries, it went away. Sounds like Kintama had the same problem. Have faith. Edited May 10, 2014 by Asojima

[Jakusotsu 5,986]

When the app started the first time after updating to 2.0.4, my Firewall asked me to allow access for "ppp_release.exe" - didn't have that before. I allowed it, but as I said, Niji video didn't work anymore.

Solution:

I uninstalled Niji completely, deleted the exception in my Firewall, and downloaded and installed NijiShow_2.0.4_SETUP.exe manually. This time I did *not* allow ppp_release.exe, and it works again like a charm.

[Asameshimae 220]

Ah that's right. Am I out of luck on a Mac? I was just about to give all this a try.

[Asashosakari 19,441]

Oddly enough, I'm having a completely different Niji issue than those posted before - the stream looks fine in Niji itself, but the same stream viewed through VLC is quite choppy. Any ideas?

[Asojima 2,874]

Niji will only allow me one active logon for my userID. Attempts to logon on a second computer are rejected. Also, I am getting a time stamp in the upper left corner of all stations. Interestingly, the times are 4 to 6 minutes behind real time. The time lags vary from station to station.

Edited May 11, 2014 by Asojima

[Kintamayama 45,252]

  On 10/05/2014 at 23:10, Asashosakari said:

Oddly enough, I'm having a completely different Niji issue than those posted before - the stream looks fine in Niji itself, but the same stream viewed through VLC is quite choppy. Any ideas?

Open and close VLC as many times as you can till you get a normal feed-it took me 6 tries this time.

Edited May 11, 2014 by Kintamayama

[Kuroyama 715]

Well, it doesn't matter for me how often I open and close VLC; it's choppy no matter what, with brief pauses about once a second. I'll probably just have to live with the aspect ratio.

[kuroimori 1,634]

UBS (Mongolian TV), now running on UStream has a much improved video quality.
If you don't speak Japanese it isn't that different to Niji and might be a good alternative (presuming that your Mongolian language skills are nonexistent like mine, that is).
Sometimes they offer more live broadcast (in case there is a debate or highschool baseball scheduled on NHK)

For my part, I am enjoying shonichi on jpPlayer in perfect quality without any problems - well the only problem is that it isn't free of charge ;-)

Edited May 11, 2014 by kuroimori

[Kintamayama 45,252]

The stream now has commentary????

[Asojima 2,874]

Niji is running about 4 minutes behind TVJapan. UBS Ustream is only a few seconds behind TVJapan.

Day 1 - Essentially lost Niji for about 8 minutes after the Endo match and again for the Harumafuji match.

Image quality for the UBS feed is just a step above the old fuzzy vision stuff.

Edited May 11, 2014 by Asojima

[Gernobono 467]

  On 11/05/2014 at 07:35, Kintamayama said:

The stream now has commentary????

unfortunatelly it has......for me it takes away lot's of the atmosphere in kokugikan, as i do not understand the commentaries (which mostly islaughter)

[kuroimori 1,634]

  On 11/05/2014 at 11:27, Gernobono said:

  On 11/05/2014 at 07:35, Kintamayama said:

The stream now has commentary????

unfortunatelly it has......for me it takes away lot's of the atmosphere in kokugikan, as i do not understand the commentaries (which mostly islaughter)

I didn't know which stream you were talking about, but when I watched Kinta's digest, I realized it's not the NHK commentary which I heard live earlier via jpPlayer (no Kariya-san & ex-Kitanofuji in Kinta's video), but the NSK stream with a new commentary feature (still not worth 120 bucks for the basho!)

I found the commentators a bit annoying, not really professional at all, more like the regular (old geezer) spectators, always going "aaaah" and "ooooh" when something happened on the dohyo instead of actually trying to do play-by-play comments.

Was it mentioned who the commentators were?

My guess would be some NSK members or associates.

A cheap upgrade to the pay-per-view stream offered by the NSK - but at least they try to improve the stream.

Edited May 11, 2014 by kuroimori

[Senkoho 552]

one of them is Iwatomo-oyakata.

[Gurowake 4,088]

DIssapointed in my attempts to watch live. Niji worked for a while, but then cut out for quite a long time. I tried UBS in the interim, but Ustream had this extremely annoying habit of playing ads without warning right before matches would start, and ended up being about one bout ahead of Niji so it wasn't like I had my choice of sources displaying the same thing at the exact same time. I'm probably not going to bother staying up to watch it live as it more or less an exercise in frustration.

[Asojima 2,874]

  On 11/05/2014 at 17:54, Gurowake said:

Ustream had this extremely annoying habit of playing ads without warning right before matches would start,

Ustream is ad/subscription supported. To eliminate the ads, google AdBlock Plus, and download the appropriate version for the browser that you use. No more Ustream ads. Edited May 11, 2014 by Asojima

[Akinomaki 40,639]

  On 11/05/2014 at 07:35, Kintamayama said:

The stream now has commentary????

Seems to be DoskoiFM, the inhouse broadcast of the kokugikan, on the radio to rent there alongside NHK bilingual. The main caster regularly comments on sumo, mostly on other sports (Sports ningen moyou), the いまでしょ channel posts them, last was about Kakuryu, I usually find them quite interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4eevJYpXc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtHIsfc-9oQ

[Asameshimae 220]

This Jpplayer appears to be windows only. Curse this country and it's Windows-centricness! The price is certainly better if you only pay 30 bucks a month. And you could get a lot more Japanese programming. Too bad most of it is not so good. (Yawning...)

Edited May 11, 2014 by Asanomeshi

[Kintamayama 45,252]

Niji now not working for me at all. Nothing happens on all channels above NHK and including. The ones below all work..

Edited May 12, 2014 by Kintamayama

[sumodrax 8]

You right, Kintamayama! Niji is not working for NHK channels and some more....just J Sport 1 and some is working...! Any clues everybody ???