Creation of VLC Media Player
Christophe Massiot is part of the initial team of VideoLAN project in Ecole Centrale of Paris, later becoming VLC.
Photo credit: Olivier Ezratty
Christophe Massiot
CEO and Founder
OpenHeadend was created in 2011. Our founder Christophe Massiot is one of the original creators of VLC media player, used by more than 100 million users and expert in software engineering and television. His goal is to bring broadcasting solutions to a revolutionary level.
Christophe Massiot is part of the original developers of the open source project VLC media player during his studies in the Centrale Paris. His contribution to VLC made him one of the most renowned and recognized experts of video software. After developing the Freebox and working with Canal+, he has developed Upipe – flexible dataflow framework – an Open Source project which is the cornerstone on which OpenHeadend is leaning on.
A brief history
1998
2011
Founding of OpenHeadend
Creation of OpenHeadend in Paris
2011
2013
New challenges
New projects with TraceTV and Molotov with the latest solutions
2017
Hiring new team members
The company grows with new developers joining the team in Paris.
2017
2019
New partnerships
Openheadend gets more independent to start new partnerships!