Like anothers comments said, mpv has some awesome native hw decoding and you can play frame by frame, previous and next, vlc you can only do next [1] (awesome thread btw). :) And mpc/mpc-hc is discontinued [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41278203 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41277818

mpc-hc is not discontinued.

https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc

Plus there is also mpc-be which is actively developed and pretty much the same.

https://github.com/Aleksoid1978/MPC-BE