Handbrake is incredibly useful to me since I use many older machines that don't have hardware (or even software) support of modern codecs. I basically treat han

Handbrake is incredibly useful to me since I use many older machines that don't have hardware (or even software) support of modern codecs. I basically treat handbrake like an "unzip" software to unzip the h265/av1/etc to a standard h264 with aac audio. The file sizes really aren't that much different.