I ran a test using x264 and x265 just about a month ago. The x265 encoding took about twice as long, and was half the bitrate for the same constant quality set

I ran a test using x264 and x265 just about a month ago. The x265 encoding took about twice as long, and was half the bitrate for the same constant quality setting. However, since all my playback devices (Fire TV w/ XBMC) rely on H264 hardware decoding, I have to stick with x264.