HandBrake

If your file sizes with x265 seem small, the solution is simple -- encode with x264. That is not a flippant remark; at 8 bit 420, uhd doesn't really need the extra compression, and it will go a LOT FASTER! That's actually not a bad idea, particularly since my HTPC supports hardware decoding of h.26...

I ripped a couple of UHD BluRay films using MakeMKV - Bladerunner 2049 and 2001: A Space Odyssey. I stripped out all but the English audio tracks, and the resulting file sizes were on the order of about 60 Gb. I then re-encoded these files using H.265 at the source resolution (but auto-cropped), and...