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,…

Projects that already exists or related.

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,…

• http://pocketvj.com/
• Can sync multiple Raspis
• Web interface
• Can play HD videos
• Can play from usb key

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

Python wrapper module around OMXPlayer for the Raspberry Pi.

• https://github.com/jbaiter/pyomxplayer (pexpect)
• https://github.com/KenT2/pyomxplayer (FIFO)