Nicovideo recently changed their uploading limits for general (non-paying) users, on Dec. 8, 2016.
- General users are limited to 50 uploaded videos, excluding those already uploaded prior to the change. (The former limit was 2GB total.)
- There are no longer any real limits to uploaded files (except below); however, all uploaded videos by general users are now re-encoded by the site. (The former policy allows either 100MB max with re-encoding, or 40MB max with no re-encoding.)
- The upload limits (for everyone) are 1.5GB per file, a resolution of 4096x2160. (But general users will have their video scaled down, I think.)
(from
http://blog.nicovideo.jp/niconews/ni065283.html)
What this means is unclear, but so far I verified that all movies are re-encoded at 30fps. Unfortunately, since the previous policy allowed for no re-encoding, this means there will be no more 60fps at Nicovideo for general users. :(
I will need to do more testing to see how bitrate is affected.