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I can still access without user/pass. You need to set both the Authentication and Read-Only Authentication in MC settings to protect it.

Maybe your ISP changed something on their side.

Update - I can now access your MC Panel, this works:
http://your-public-ip:52199

You have it open as guest, without user/password. Next step is to add a user/pass in MC settings so that strangers from the internet are not seeing and consuming your collection. This is urgent as these links now work for everyone in this forum.

Thanks.  I've put a password on the guest access - don't remember if I might have opened that up at some point to try to get it to work, or what the default behavior is.

I can now connect using the wifi hotspot / WAN and am prompted for the name and password prior to it loading.

Any idea what changed to make it work suddenly?  I don't recall anything I did earlier today made a difference.

We are working on HDR metadata.  It is still not clear how we are approaching it.

regardless of whether you make it public api or not, I'm curious what are the downsides of the method of packing data into IMediaSideData (https://github.com/Nevcairiel/LAVFilters/blob/81c5676cb99d0acfb1457b8165a0becf5601cae3/include/IMediaSideData.h) are? it seems commonly used and pretty straightforward

Laptop typically do not playback DSD to their own speakers. DSD is probably being converted to PCM. You can check that in Audio Path.

From the Lumin, are you connected to MC acting as a DLNA server? If so, which one? In Tools - Options - Media Network you can set up that DLNA server. For the server to send DSD to the client (Lumin) the DLNA server needs to be set to Original Format or Convert Only When Necessary with DSD set to not convert DSD.

Can you send audio from MC to the Lumin via DLNA? Does that play DLNA?

Update - I can now access your MC Panel, this works:
http://your-public-ip:52199

You have it open as guest, without user/password. Next step is to add a user/pass in MC settings so that strangers from the internet are not seeing and consuming your collection. This is urgent as these links now work for everyone in this forum.

IPv4 is OK.

In the NAT/Gaming page, click the "custom services" button. The settings for "Media Center 32" must be there.

And the Custom Service definition for MC32?
For the WAN IP, check perhaps the "broadband" or "system info" tab. Or that "More Info" button.

There's no more info about the Custom Service definition.

The WAN IP is under broadband:

MKV files are containers. They can hold MP4 video streams, AVI video streams, etc. Media Center is playing the video file, not the container.

And the Custom Service definition for MC32?
For the WAN IP, check perhaps the "broadband" or "system info" tab. Or that "More Info" button.

Can you attach screenshots of your port-forward config on the router?

Also... do you see your WAN address on the router status page? It should display the 99.8.87.177 address there. The reason I ask is that perhaps your ISP is only providing you with a IPv6 address, and the IPv4 is actually added on their side. This IPv4-over-IPv6 tunneling is common, I had to ask my previous ISP to allocate me an IPv4 address to be able to remotely access my network.

I don't see the WAN address on the status page.  Screenshot attached: