Can I use ATV2 with a NAS?

Can I use the Apple TV 2 with a NAS?
I currently have all my DVD collection (TV shows & movies) ripped into an iTunes library that is stored on an external HDD on my laptop. 
When I want to watch something on my AppleTV, I ensure my laptop is connected to the same WiFi network as my ATV (I have three WiFi networks in my house) and I start iTunes and ensure Home Sharing is on.  Then the AppleTV can see my laptop's iTunes library and I can watch my media without any problem.
The issue is that for work I need to connect to a different WiFi network.  This means I'm constantly having to go into another room, change the WiFi network my laptop is using, launch iTunes and confirm Home Sharing is working.  Sometimes the AppleTV simply doesn't see my laptop.  I have to stop and restart Home Sharing etc.
It would be MUCH easier if I could simply have my iTunes library (ie, all my ripped TV shows & movies) simply running off a NAS.  I know you can get some NAS drives with "iTunes Servers" in them.  Does this mean I can simply configure the AppleTV to use that instead of my laptop running iTunes?  Ideally I would like to avoid having to run iTunes on my laptop just so I can watch movies I've already ripped and stored on a HDD somewhere.
Is this possible, or am I stuck with having to run iTunes on a computer somewhere for the AppleTV to work?
Also, any idea why the AppleTV seems to randomly just stop seeing my laptop running iTunes with Home Sharing anyway?  I need to stop & start Home Sharing regularly which is very frustrating.

I went the NAS route with the goal of getting all my iPhoto libraries (new one each year) off the computer (filling up) and not having an external HD connected to my nice and neat iMac.  That seems to have been a failing proposition.  Even though I can use the iPhoto library, doing it over wifi has been a chore.  It's okay on the computer directly connected via ethernet to the network hub where the NAS is.  BUT, another goal of buying the ATV2 was to be able to show all of those spiffy pics of our son to the grandparents when they came to visit.  I have yet to get ATV2 to play the photos that are stored on the NAS - even though all the home sharing stuff is set up correctly, iTunes is running (seems a dumb way to see my iPhoto library), and all the other settings.  It simply seems to be unable to play the photos from the NAS - even though the computer can.
And don't get me started about not being able to play any of the hundreds of avi movie container/files produced by our Canon PowerShot camera.  Movies that play absolutely fine on the iMac with no special software (beyond quicktime).
My NAS is becoming more and more a place to just do backups and the merged library functionality of sharing between multiple computes and iOS devices seems to be a lost cause.  very frustrating.

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