Help to develope an fullfeatured, h264 capable card, or hw accelerated
Been there, done that already :-) The HDE from Reel decodes h264, I wrote a lot of the driver stuff for it. So there is (at least one) h264-decoder card, and btw, vdr is the main platform for the HDE.
btw - recently RMM decreased the price for eHD http://www.reel-multimedia.com/de/shop_extension_hd.php
I hope it's not last time :)
video driver for radeon/nvidia/intel cards.
There are rumours that Ati is planning such drivers... In the long term special decoder cards will vanish, but I think it will still take some time.