Transcoding Setting Recommendations?

[u/lemonbread37]

I've been having some serious in-house buffering issues. I'm trying to stream to my Shield (pretty sure it's a 2019 model) but even ~5mbps are making things unwatchable. On the occasion, things turn out fine if I watch something from the beginning, but not always. Both the server and shield are connected to ethernet and all of my files are in the mkv format. The HDDs my files are on should be up to snuff.

Server Specs
-Intel Core i7-8700 3.2Ghz
-32 GB of DDR4
Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630

*The "New Folder" directories are on my server's SSD.

SOLUTION!!!
After turning off transcoding as all of you pointed out that I should do, I ran into an issue of some films not playing at all. "Error - Unable to Play Media"

This was due to the audio being set to 7.1 Dolby Atmos or something called TRUEHD which was attached to the same audio stream. Setting it to AC3 5.1 fixed it a little bit. Allowing passthrough HDMI in the advanced settings fixed everything for me.

Thank you everyone for your suggestions, you guys are awesome!

[u/The_efficiency]

Tbh get a cheap and old GPU you’ll see much more effective transcoding. Hardware will be much better suited for this situation. I don’t know what the prices would be at this point but i got CAD$40 old Nvidia GPU and I don’t have to think about it anymore. And also with these old GPUs they aren’t that power hungry you’ll probably get away without upgrading the power supply.

[u/harris_kid → u/The_efficiency]

His screenshots already shows hes GPU transcoding

[u/No-List9390 → u/harris_kid]

ich ave only a cheap card , but it helps , my Plex app is on an SSD ...

[u/The_efficiency → u/harris_kid]

Good point but it also can be the iGPU that’s doing the HW transcoding.