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Would having a build with all the video related features stripped out be advantageous somehow?

I don't use the video stuff at all, and thought maybe this would reduce the memory footprint or cpu usage or how knows what.

With Java, it probably wouldn't change much. The code to load a file's metadata into memory is not going to be much, and if using html5 for video, there's no server-side footprint at all for that. The transcode classes won't even be loaded into server memory if you don't have videos to see.