MPC software for playing DivX videos on Win2k

[Fredw]

Hi All, looking for some software that could be used to navigate and play Divx movies. I have an older PC hooked up to my TV and currently use VNC to play videos...this works fine but I want other (non-techie) people to be able to play videos as well. The PC is a 2ghz celeron w/ 1gb of ram and a very old Radeon 9200, it is also running Win2k (runs much faster than XP) and I would prefer to keep it that way.

I have a Windows Media Center remote, so if the software supports it that would be great, otherwise I am open to buying another remote. I just want to be clear that I don't need any kind of TV functionality, this is strictly for playing videos over the LAN. Obviously I would prefer free software, but if the best solution costs $20-30, then that would be okay.

If you are familiar with any of the frontends for Mame, I am looking for almost the exact same thing for videos. Just something that shows a list of all the videos, preferably able to import coverart for movies, and when you select a video it launches it in WMP or Winamp. The "Media Portal" software linked elsewhere on this site looks pretty good, but only supports XP.

[SatStorm]

Media Portal has issues with Win2K but if you search on their forum, you can find easy ways to make it compatible.

A great alternative to Media Portal is GBPVR

But for the things you wish to do, I think "Got all media" may be a better choice