TV-Out question?

[stryder]

I am currently running a setup using a PVR350, which occassionaly causes my PC to crash on startup due to the TV-OUT problems it has (discussed in length on other threads) , This causes recordings to fail and unfortunately for me it always seems to happen when it is one of my wifes programs, as you can understand this is causing me major grief

I am seriously considering buying a budget graphics cards with TV-OUT so i can bypass the 350. The card I am looking at is the XFX GeForce FX5200, this apparently has a MPEG2 hardware decoder built-in, if I set GBPVR to use software decoding so that it will use the TV-OUT will the decoder be automatically used at a lower-level by the card?, or do I have to configure it differently within GB-PVR?

It is a dedicated PVR machine so I am not interested in the gaming capabilities of the card.

Any help would be appreciated.


Setup
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Antec Aria case
MSI KM4M-V mobo
AMD Sempron 2500+
512MB
200GB HD
PVR350
Windows XP sp2
GB-PVR 0.95.16

[sub]

It depends on the video decoder you select. Some of them are able to use the hardware DXVA features offered by these cards.

Its not really a full hardware decoder like you get with the PVR350, but rather a set of accelleration features which remove bit of the CPU burden during decoding. Many of these video cards that advertise built-in decoding features seem to be more marketing than substance.

[stryder]

Thanks for the prompt reply!
Hopefully my setup will have enough oomph to manage the decoding with or without the hardware accelaration, still every bit helps