clsid's MPC-HC is truly great software. If you haven't tried it in the last decade, you don't need to install any extra codec packs of anything. It is already

clsid's MPC-HC is truly great software. If you haven't tried it in the last decade, you don't need to install any extra codec packs of anything. It is already bundled with a recent ffdshow, and it comes with an exe installer (or portable zip if you want), so it's as easy as VLC to install and configure, and in some cases more performant than mpv (which uses plain ffmpeg libraries)