Up to recently I have only used MC to play music. Ripping video discs did not seem viable. With the advent of huge TB hard discs that has changed the picture. I have some Oppo players and 4K wide screen display. I have failed so far to use DLNA to send the video to. No luck with this. So far I have a spare HDMI output from my workstation feeding to an Oppo 205. This does get the picture to the display, but is very awkward to use and the quality does not seem what it should be. Audio output is no problem so far, my CD collection and also the video output can be sent via to both optic and HDMA inputs on my entertainment system.
So, my thought is: take over a HDMI output on our computer for exclusive use of JR MC. So there is the option when ever playing a video it is send to this output. The same as selecting the audio output works now. That works effortlessly now.
Currently now to watch a video my choices are, watch on the computer screen, turn on the entertainment system and then either drag the MC window to the system or disconnect the small display window and drag it over. What is bad with this, when I shut the entertainment system down all these settings are lost.
One other small thing, when playing my music, using the optical output is preferred, for the video to get multichannel the HDMI is require. what about let us set Audio to use one output and Video a different output. Right now when changing from one to the other I have to change the options in the program.
If I could make the DLNA work this probably would not be an issue. Interesting on my smart phone I can listen to music and watch videos. My system is very nice to say the least, so listening to music or watch video on the small screen & micro-speaker on the phone when I have a 78 inch 4K display available, forget that.