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