Dennis,

You inferred my question accurately. It is overwhelming learning a new concept (DLNA), testing numerous rendering combinations and having to choose a long-term standard.

Yesterday I began rendering movies as MKV, H.264, AC-3 passthru, DTS passthru. Takes a while to render (using a quad core computer), but the video quality looks good and my amp detects both audio streams if present.

Question: is there a way, without creating 26 playlists, to locate movies by first character? Movie lists can get fairly long and scrolling is not an sustainable as the library grows. I already broke up my movies into a few playlists, but I can forsee challenges in the future.