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Top 23 C Framework Projects
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VideoLAN Client (VLC)
VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please use MRs on https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc
Project mention: VLC tops 6B downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-09It can actually send to Google the media you are playing:
https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/f908ef4981c93a8b76805ad...
and to their own servers:
https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/f908ef4981c93a8b76805ad...
should could fetch subtitles as the same time ?
edit: cf, what "a3w" says too.
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Unicorn Engine
Unicorn CPU emulator framework (ARM, AArch64, M68K, Mips, Sparc, PowerPC, RiscV, S390x, TriCore, X86)
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capstone
Capstone disassembly/disassembler framework for ARM, ARM64 (ARMv8), Alpha, BPF, Ethereum VM, HPPA, LoongArch, M68K, M680X, Mips, MOS65XX, PPC, RISC-V(rv32G/rv64G), SH, Sparc, SystemZ, TMS320C64X, TriCore, Webassembly, XCore and X86.
When I was last working with machine code, I found capstone to be very useful. Even just reading the source was helpful for some of the conditionally present amd64 fields.
https://github.com/capstone-engine/capstone
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Kore
An easy to use, scalable and secure web application framework for writing web APIs in C or Python. || This is a read-only mirror, please see https://kore.io/mail and https://kore.io/source for information on how to contribute via the mailing lists.
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nexmon
The C-based Firmware Patching Framework for Broadcom/Cypress WiFi Chips that enables Monitor Mode, Frame Injection and much more
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InfluxDB
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Author of videolang:
Avisynth+ is awesome.
Interestingly enough, the first version of video was actually built on top of libmlt: https://www.mltframework.org/
I was just dissatisfied with it due to its lack of functions. I can't remember why I didn't just use avisynth as it does actually have functions.
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Melon
A generic cross-platform C library that includes many commonly used components and frameworks, and a new scripting language interpreter. It currently supports C99 and Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP).
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qpc
QP/C Real-Time Event Framework/RTOS is a lightweight implementation of the asynchronous, event-driven Active Object (Actor) model combined with Hierarchical State Machines.
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Project mention: LuaRT 1.9.5 – Lua framework for Windows development | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-20
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May be time to dust off that raylib + crystal project and go try a game jam. I think I'll use this wrapper https://github.com/sol-vin/raylib-cr
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Selene
Automation low level tool based on MQTT data. Optionnal backends to create "DRM/Cairo", "OLed", "LCD" or "Curses" graphical applications. (by destroyedlolo)
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Framework-ArkServerApi
ArkServerAPI is open source software you can install directly into windows versions of Ark Survival Evolved this software allows you to manage and create plugins to enhance your video game servers. ArkServerAPI is currently run and supported by GameServersHub.
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TJE_Framework
Basic C++ Framework for games, it wraps the basic GPU interface (Meshes, Textures, Shaders, Application).
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The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Framework projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | VideoLAN Client (VLC) | 15,874 |
| 2 | Unicorn Engine | 8,318 |
| 3 | capstone | 8,141 |
| 4 | Kore | 3,766 |
| 5 | nexmon | 2,604 |
| 6 | facil.io | 2,310 |
| 7 | Criterion | 2,135 |
| 8 | pipewire | 1,951 |
| 9 | mlt | 1,604 |
| 10 | Melon | 1,417 |
| 11 | qpc | 1,115 |
| 12 | vulkan | 776 |
| 13 | LuaRT | 357 |
| 14 | Ice | 341 |
| 15 | honey-potion | 278 |
| 16 | OpenKAI | 246 |
| 17 | ImFrame | 138 |
| 18 | raylib-cr | 100 |
| 19 | rexo | 30 |
| 20 | Selene | 25 |
| 21 | Framework-ArkServerApi | 19 |
| 22 | TJE_Framework | 13 |
| 23 | nim-crypto | 3 |
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