What a good dude

I just keep them both installed and without any tweaking I can play any filetype in existence, and several that are not.

While VLC has a larger community and thus they want to put ads on it, the author rejects to do that. That’s the point of this post.

Isn't MPC dead now?

They're both free, you don't have to choose and can have them both! Not everything needs to be compared and ranked.