What difference does it make if I enable support for video post format?

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1. Couple of things to point out actually:

   1. It will add a class on post_class() so you can use different formatting via css.
   2. In the case of Post Formats, the taxonomy is post_format and the terms are post-format-{format}. i.e. taxonomy-post_format-post-format-link.php http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy
   3. In single.php file you can use conditionals to have complete different html for each post format.
   4. Hopefully there are more but can remember right now 😉

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2. Another nice feature of Post Formats is that they are a taxonomy, which means that you get all the advantages of a taxonomy, and can make many uses of the taxonomy:

   • Video post-format archive index page
   • Video post-format RSS feed link
   • Video post-format breadcrumb navigation
   • etc.

   And +1 to what everyone else has said, though I much prefer the elegance of this approach, to implementing post format-specific markup using conditionals:

   get_template_part( 'content', 'get_post_format()' );
   

   …which will locate, e.g. content-video.php for posts with the “video” post format, and will fall back to content.php for posts without a post format.

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3. It just gives you a different way to categorize and style certain posts. In your case Videos (Without a separate template file).

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