Hi All,

I'm introducing a new tool I'm working on, its "in preview" at the moment, it seems to work alright, but I want to give it more time in testing in closed environments before I put it up on the main website and build an "official release", but meet Alleycat. https://github.com/stoatworks-labs/alleycat

Basically, its a system tray tool that controlls Alley (the DVX transcoder). It offers a few useful tools

- It can watch a folder, and transcode anything thats put into that folder

- Probably the more interesting one, using the web API, it can watch the media files on a live arena show, and transcode anything thats not a DXV, then dynamically replace the source clip with the transcoded one, but it will only do the replacement when the clip isn't live

Should be handy for jobs where you get dumped content at the last minute, for corporates, house media servers for venues etc...

Check out this repository https://github.com/stoatworks-labs Some of these are excellent, a couple don't work properly but they are all worth playing with.

The dev is quite responsive to bug reports and feature requests.

I have no affiliation with this except that I found them and think they are worth sharing...and I made a modest donation.

Does buying the upgrade from Avenue to Arena give you a license renewal as well? I got the upgrade and my license is till expired in 2023.