Installing a new tuner - to HWclear or not?

[Pob]

Added a new Nova HD S2 card - but because I already installed the latest WinTV software for another card, Windows did not give me the chance to install new drivers - it recognised the card and installed drivers automatically.
Should I use HWclear and install eveything from scratch? Everything seems in order except for one entry in device manager - 'WinTV 88x (unused function)'. No exclamation marks though.
I cannot test it yet as I have no sat dish!
In PVRX2 the card is not listed when 'only show installed devices' is checked -the nearest was 'HVR400 S/S2' Should the HD S2 appear in the list? I started a scan for the hell of it, and it did go through the scanning process fine...

[sub]

In PVRX2 the card is not listed when 'only show installed devices' is checked -the nearest was 'HVR400 S/S2' Should the HD S2 appear in the list? I started a scan for the hell of it, and it did go through the scanning process fine...

It probably uses the same drivers as the HVR4000 so this would have been fine.

[Pob]

It probably uses the same drivers as the HVR4000 so this would have been fine.

I had a dish put up today! And yes you are correct Sub, it is scanning fine using the HVR4000 settings.

But I have not seen any satellite channels in GBPVR yet - I cannot beleive how long it takes to scan! I did a scan in WinTV first and I can view SD channels but not BBC HD. I realise this is why they ship it with Power Cinema software (which I have not installed)
When it does finish, is there anything else I need to be aware of? I seem to remember reading that you have to use the DVR-MS mux to view satellite channels on GBPVR...why would this be?

[sub]

I seem to remember reading that you have to use the DVR-MS mux to view satellite channels on GBPVR...why would this be?

DVB-S is no different than DVB-T, and can use whatever mux.

If you're recording a H.264 channel though, like BBC HD, then it'll use the TS Mux, since this is the only mux that can take this type of video.

[Pob]

Thank you Sub.
Scanning finished. All the channels found except ITV HD, which I know takes a bit more fiddling.
But BBC HD looks 'orrible! - Bad interlacing on any movement at all.
Tried MPC HC decoder and Core AVC. Usually I leave deinterlacing to the ATI Catalyst drivers, not sure why they are not working. I play a lot of H264 MKV's and do not have any deinterlacing problems with them...

[Pob]

I forgot that all my MKV videos are 720p
As BBC HD is 1080i, it's my first experience of interlaced HD content. I set Core AVC as the preferred decoder and changed it from 'no deinterlacing' to weave, and now BBC HD looks great.
I would prefer to use the MPC Video decoder though; for hardware acceleration. So anyone got deinterlacing working with the MPC stand-alone decoder?