Playing videos saved on my hard drive through blue ray player

I have many movies saved on my computer/hard drive. Rather than connect my laptop via HDMI or buy AppleTV etc... I was wondering if I could watch my videos through a Blu Ray player (since we will purchase one soon)?
For instance the Samsung BD-C6500 has a USB port for 1GB storage but I don't know if this means I can do video playback. Oh, and my videos are .m4v
Any ideas/suggestions...?

paulsmithetc wrote:
You could also check out these other media servers if you find "PC Share Manager" cumbersome or inadequate as some in other post on Samsungs site have they are as follows:
http://www.serviio.org/
https://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/    This will tell you about this particular program below is the download site
https://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/downloads​/detail?name=pms-setup-windows-1.50..nexe
I tried a bunch of DLNA servers for my panasonic, and found the only one that consisntently transcoded files for my Panasonic was Twonkymedia server.

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