All I have a price update for you and progress report...
Firstly I have now a sample PCIe board from which I'm testing at the moment.
There are alot of teething problems on the software side which i'm looking to get ironed out before goin ahead with a production run - I won't go into detail but it's still alot of work.
So far the results are impressive. As an example BBC HD here is the UK uses 1080i H.264 High Profile Level 4 pumping ~20Mb/s. Without the board my CPU just struggled to play it at about 13fps at 100% cpu utilisation. With the sample card I watched TV smoothly with 10-13% cpu - so I good result.
My system specs are below for people interested.
As for price I'm estimating (sorry I can't be specific here yet) that the lite version (no HDMI with HDCP output) of the boards will retail at 350-400 euro's
The current thought process is to donate 50 euro's back to the project for each board sold to MP users.
Note: margins will be slim i'm doing this out of love not profit.
Let me know what you think of this price point I'm interested in your feedback as always.
DMAN