Tech

CANAL ❤ OpenR&Day 2018 !

Tous les ans, Oodrive organise une journée pour les développeurs de la French Tech !

Why using docker in your local dev environment is probably not a great idea

Let me preface this by saying that docker is an amazing tool. We use it every day in our CI to run our different pipelines in a prod-like environment making our functional and performance tests very…

1ère Mondiale : CANAL+ propose du Dolby Atmos sur Apple !

CANAL+ démocratise le Dolby Atmos en le…

G9 _ Nouveau décodeur de CANAL +

Faut voir grand dans la vie, quitte à voyager à travers le temps au volant d’une voiture, autant en…

How video streaming works on the web: An introduction

Note: this article is an introduction to video streaming in…

Introducing rx-player

A few months ago, as Google announced the tearing down of Silverlight support in Chrome, CANAL+ started working on a new player, using the new HTML5 API (MSE, EME, …) to play video.

This player is now used by the CANAL+ users within myCANAL website.

DASHme — The rx-player companion

As you’ve probably seen, we released a few weeks ago an HTML5 player based on reactive programming : RX Player. This is quite nice if you want to play your own content on your website, if you have some, but if you don’t, well, it’s kind of useless.

Analysing the state of a set-top box using it’s video output

One of the challenges that the software validation team faces is knowing what is the state of a given set-top box without having to look at its output, this is specially useful when automating tests since we’ll be sending a…

Meet Bob : conversation-driven development

Many teams here at Canal+ use their own ChatOps software to handle repetitive tasks and/or notifications through their favorite chat app (from IRC to Slack). From Hubot to custom solutions, they vary on user’s affinites with programming languages (Hubot…

Jenkins 2: Pipeline as Code

Over the last month, we tested the newest (and still sometime unstable) Jenkins version with a state-of-the-art development workflow in mind. It includes strong Github integration (i.e. with the Status API), Docker usage (for on-demand and versatile slaves) and user-friendly Jobs…