In reply to Martin Nicolaisen.

Hi Martin!
I have nginx with directory listing enabled and pointing to the directories where I store my videos, and I just watch them in the browser whenever I need. If I'm not home, I use OpenVPN to access my LAN remotely and then use that same web page.
I had started developing a really simple iOS app that did the same thing (with the help of a couple PHP scripts that generated a JSON list of all the files), but ultimately it was a lot of effort for not much gain: while the nginx trick is inelegant it works quite well on all platforms.