RasPiVJ

A long lasting idea (first occurence was during residency of the Metahub Nuit Blanche in Brussels) trying to come to life out of necessity.

Concept: use the Raspberry Pi as a VJ plateform

Sure, why not. It's cheap, light weight, small, has RCA or HDMI output, can play h264 HD videos, works already well as a media center,…

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Projects that already exist or related.

Super Pikix Pi

A full featured VJ software by the great Pikilipita

http://www.pikilipita.com/superpikixpi/

Free, but not open source

Own codec (kouky .k19) and converter for Win or Mac only

Clips limited to 250 frames @ 25fps, 640×360

Playlist based, some overlay effects,…

Pocket VJ

http://pocketvj.com/

Can sync multiple Raspis

Web interface

Can play HD videos

Can play from usb key

openFrameworks + ofxOMXPlayer

The oF toolbox ported to Raspberry Pi and its addon to use the OpenMAX video capabilities with it.

http://www.openframeworks.cc/setup/raspberrypi/Raspberry-Pi-Getting-Started.html

https://github.com/jvcleave/ofxOMXPlayer

pyomxplayer

Python wrapper module around OMXPlayer for the Raspberry Pi.

https://github.com/jbaiter/pyomxplayer (pexpect)

https://github.com/KenT2/pyomxplayer (FIFO)