YouTube processes uploaded videos through a distributed transcoding pipeline that slices videos into 5-10 second fragments, processes them in parallel across hundreds of cloud worker nodes using custom VCUs (Video Coding Units), and prioritizes Standard Definition encoding first to enable faster publishing while 4K encoding continues in the background, with all fragments later stitched together for Adaptive Bitrate Streaming.
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