Well I realize that it has been quite a while since my last post. Unfortunately I was away for a while so I haven't had time to work with the Efika but that is changing now. I am currently getting a build environment together and investigating video cards to use. A card with a range out video outputs (composite, S-Video, component) and hardware MPEG2 decoding is really what I am looking for.

As well, I am investigating options for a case and power supply. I would like to use an external power supply to shrink the case as small as possible but may have to go with some sort of internal power supply. There are a number of exciting case designs that other people have come up with.