Newbie interested in storing movies to nas

AndyRg4

I use the Zappiti media player and have found it to be nothing but great.  It handles every file I have tried to play and supports all the latest audio codecs.
It is really easy to set up and has a nice intuitive 'video wall' layout

Sloppy Bob

I wouldn't say the Vero4K is the best, but it is good at a good price point, the problem is so many people will tell you to buy

A Nvidia ShieldTV
Apple TV4K
Zappitti
Ziddoo
Generic cheap Chinese android box, why pay more? (Many reasons as far as I'm concerned)

and many, many others.

They all have some issues, or features missing you might want or, or, or.... I'd do a bit of research .

neilball

I’ve got a Synology 1815  Nas populated with 8x5TB drives just now for my CD and movie storage (mostly BluRay plus DVDs).

I use Kodi running on a variety of players, and one of the “best” (in as much as it plays all audio formats and can replay video natively with frame-rate conversion etc) is actually a Raspberry Pi. As my RPi is an older version I did buy codecs for hardware deciding MPEG-2 and VC1 codecs for smooth playback (which only cost a few quid each).  

I control this player via an App on my iPhone, and it works flawlessly. I don’t know how well my NAS would run the Plex server, but as Kodi works so well I’ve not bothered to try.

I also have Kodi installed directly on my Sony TVs (which use Android as their OS), plus other Kodi installs on a variety of Fore TV hardware.

My next challenge is to start ripping my 4k UHD disks via MakeMKV for playback on my 4K capable displays, but that is a whole topic by itself!

Sloppy Bob

I don't think your RPi is going to cut it for 4K and HD Audio formats, unfortunately.