Just so you know, LibreELEC might be able to fulfill this need better. It's a JEOS style appliance with just enough Linux to bootstrap Kodi and that includes a file manager and you can use Samba to move files around over the network. Since Kodi (formerly known as XBMC) is a ten-foot interface, it was made for watching videos on your TV. There are also all sorts of skins to make it easy to use and nice to look at, including some you'd be convinced you were using your very own personal Netflix library, curated by you alone.
