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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Taipan" data-source="post: 45024" data-attributes="member: 11681">Yes, definitely!  The hardware encoder converts the analogue video frames into the MPEG2 stream, and then the SBE writes it to disk as a DVR-MS file. Yes, the tuner is doing its best to "save CPU cycles".  If you monitor the CPU% usage while recording a TV program (but not watching TV at the same time) you will see that the CPU% is very low.About the only other thing you can do is to use a video decoder that utilises DxVA (hardware decoding) like the Nvidia PureVideo decoder, which will off-load the decoding of the MPEG2 stream to the video card.  This can easily halve the CPU% used, but is only effective when you are displaying TV or a video/DVD.</blockquote>