Video stutter (local playback only)

Personally I like smplayer.
It can use either mpv or mplayer as the backend.

In all cases you probably want to look at the output/accel methods.

Assuming you are doing this on the intel … then you are probably trying to use VAAPI.

( so in smplayer maybe set
General>Video>OutputDriver=gpu, Performance>Performance>HardwareDecoding=vaapi )

See for example;
VLC Stutters when Seeking? - #8 by cscs
VLC blurry video with hardware acceleraion enabled - #8 by cscs

Let us know if any of that works for you.
A good place to start, so people can see system info etc, is also