The MPC-HC bug couldn't be due to the faulty internal video filter as not all Divx/Xvid files were affected. So there could a bug in the media player's code itself.
QUOTE(Mika Kurogane @ Aug 28 2012, 16:56)

Try using VLC (or something similar and better) when MPC fails.
The reason I no longer use VLC was because there were frame skips in almost every video I played and it was persistent even in version 2.0, with or without Hardware Acceleration.
QUOTE(Tiap @ Aug 30 2012, 03:33)

All the cool kids now use MPC-HC with madVR and LAV Filters or CoreAVC+CUDA
MPC-HC+CoreAVC (DXVA) for me.