Personally, I switched from using VLC and MPC-HC to Potplayer, VLC was buggy as always with the typical blockiness and stuttering, MPC-HC was very bare bones for me but for Potplayer, I liked the UI more, it has plenty of features off-the-shelf, as an avid anime watcher, I download a lot of animes and I watch them using potplayer.
There is a Ukrainian website that STILL shows up high on Google search results with the malware PotPlayer.
This one: https://daumpotplayer.com/download/
DON'T USE IT!
Only get PotPlayer from the official South Korean site.
This one - https://potplayer.daum.net/ - is the official site. Only get it from there.