Well, with the Efika boards soon (hopefully) to be on their way out to developers, it won't be long now before I will be able to get to work on this. In anticipation, I have got my MythTV setup prepared for a separate front-end and I build a test one on a x86 system to ensure that I won't have any problems from that end.

I have been giving this more thought and have decided that for now it will be a front-end only and not adding a capture card. This is meant to be a cheap but powerful front-end that can be setup at the various TVs around someone's house.