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If you do it at home, for your 10 videos, there isn't. At youtube scale, they certainly can benefit in having different number of bits in storage and transit and in the CPU. Only on the CPU, and only if you actually want to use the value in calculations the 64 bits is best step after 32. See also discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8691291



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