Windows Media Player gets new features in Insider builds, but it still to open a video, uses 3x more RAM idle, and can't play ...

I tried installing Nimovs codec pack but IO still didn't have any luck opening the files with Media player or the Playa (bundled with the Div-X 4 codec.) Anyone else had probs with the media player ...

I need some sort of a video player that runs in windows 2000 that supplies its own video codecs, or one that can have a normal codec installed in its directory instead of having the codec registered ...