Thanks so much. I saw your earlier post, and basically wound up at the same conclusion you come to here. The trick to getting smooth playback from the Handbrake GUI is indeed turning Decomb on, and setting it to Bob. I don’t even need to specify a framerate; it just takes care of the problem.
I just modified the “MKV Normal” Profile and added decomb=bob to it:
handbrake-general=--decomb=bob --detelecine --loose-anamorphic --verbose=2 -O
I’m actually hoping that I don’t need to add -cfr to it at all, because that’s not necessary in the GUI version. In an ideal world, this preset would also detelecine shows that were shot in, say, 24 fps, so I’m trying to get to a place where with one single profile, MCEBuddy always outputs a file that matches the true source material.
I have it running on a test file now, and I’ll check back in here once it’s run. Thanks again.