Thx Andrew, well explained.
But is Option 1 not a bottle-neck while using a low performance wireless Notebook? I thought if MC acts as Server, the huge media file needs to go wireless to Notebook, pass MC and gets shifted to my AVR. My simpleminded thinking is when using MC only as CP, only some bytes moving to NAS and then via Ethernet cable the huge media files gets to the AVR.
If Option 2 would be faster I would like to stay with it. Even its more complicated. The main advantage is not to turn off the MC after chosing the media files. I love MC because it has a clear structure/view to access media files; especially the tagged pictures !!!!!! To be honest I have not found the last years a good software which can manage my then thousand tagged pictures. But MC does it !
Besides, I am planning to buy a combined notebook/tablet “Asus Transformer Book T100TA” with 2GB DD3 Ram and 32GB eMMCX, Win8,1, Touchscreen, Dockingstation, Intel® Bay Trail-T Quad Core Z3740 1.33 GHzProzessor. Purpose is to check some emails, internet surfing: But mainly CP Hardware for Hometheater. Do you think this notebook could work with option 1 ? I know that this Questions needs to be shifted/posted to Hardware section, but may be you have any suggestion.
Sorry for asking so much, but MC has tooooooo much potential which I really enjoy.
Appreciate your feedback as newbie
Greetings from germany