# NextGen Interactive (ngi.video)

> NextGen Interactive is a software engineering studio building the Video Studio (video tools that run in your browser on your own files at /console, with GPU processing in private early access), web-native RPG and visual novel projects (FableForge, Containment), games and simulations you run locally or from source (Resonance, Open Melvor, GovSim), the Vox AI-native programming language, and transparent decision-support platforms (GigMe, Ramada, GreaterFool, PeaceBoard).

For the complete unabridged technical specification, full 40-project dossiers, and the video tool list, read: [https://ngi.video/llms-full.txt](https://ngi.video/llms-full.txt)

## Primary Routes & Live Endpoints

- [Home & Engineering Portfolio](https://ngi.video/): Small, useful apps you can try in your browser, the full list of all 40 projects, and an email contact.
- [Video Studio](https://ngi.video/console): Compress, trim, join, contact-sheet and loudness tools, plus subtitle search, that run in your browser on your own files. Nothing is uploaded.
- [Public API reference](https://ngi.video/api): Read-only public endpoints (health, the video tool list, build-time link data), early-access requests, and the OpenAPI spec, with a sandbox that sends GET requests only.
- [Video tool list JSON](https://ngi.video/api/registry/tools): Machine-readable list of the 11 video tools with outcome-level descriptions and where each one runs.
- [Early-access requests](https://ngi.video/api/early-access): HTTP endpoint for GPU early-access requests and business inquiries. Requests are saved in NextGen Interactive's own Postgres database; a success reply means it was saved, and any other reply says it was not saved or could not be confirmed.
- [OpenAPI 3.1.0 Specification](https://ngi.video/openapi.json): OpenAPI contract for the public endpoints above.
- [Build-time portfolio link data](https://ngi.video/api/health/links): Portfolio link data captured at build time. For live status use https://ngi.video/api/portfolio/status.
- [Third-party licenses](https://ngi.video/licenses): Licenses and sources for the open-source software the browser tools use, including FFmpeg.
- [GPU processing in private early access](https://ngi.video/#contact): Upscaling and other GPU work is not open yet; ask through the contact section.
- [Full LLM Context Corpus](https://ngi.video/llms-full.txt): Complete project narratives (taglines, why created, why useful, features) and the video tool list.

## Video Studio tools in your browser (https://ngi.video/console)

- **Smart Video Compress** (`compress`): Re-encode a video to H.264 (MP4), VP9 or AV1 (WebM) in your browser with WebCodecs, falling back to FFmpeg (WebAssembly) when WebCodecs can't. Shows the measured size before and after. Why useful: No upload: the file never leaves your device, and the before and after sizes are measured, not estimated.
- **Lossless Segment Merger** (`concatenate`): Join clips that share the same codec settings and resolution into one file by copying packets, without re-encoding. Clips that don't match are refused, not silently converted. Why useful: No upload: join camera or screen-capture parts on your own device without re-encoding them.
- **Keyframe Video Chunker** (`segment`): Cut one range or split a video into equal parts in your browser. Keyframe mode copies packets without re-encoding; frame-accurate mode re-encodes. Why useful: No upload: cut or split a recording on your own device; keyframe mode finishes in moments because nothing is re-encoded.
- **Subtitle Search** (`srt_search`): Search the lines of an .srt file you load and jump the video to any cue — in your browser. Why useful: Editors and researchers often remember a phrase but not when it was said. Load the video and its .srt in the console, search for the phrase, and click a line to jump to it. Nothing is uploaded.
- **Contact Sheet Thumbnailer** (`thumbnailer`): Capture evenly spaced, frame-accurate frames from a video and lay them out as one PNG or JPEG contact sheet, in your browser. Why useful: No upload: get a one-image overview of a video on your own device.
- **Loudness Normalizer (EBU R128)** (`loudnorm`): Two-pass EBU R128 loudness normalization with FFmpeg compiled to WebAssembly, run in your browser. Video is copied; audio is re-encoded to AAC at the original sample rate. Why useful: No upload: bring a voice or music track to a standard loudness on your own device.

## GPU video tools in private early access (https://ngi.video/#contact)

- **2× / 4× Video Upscaler** (`upres`): Upscales lower-resolution footage 2× or 4× with edge-preserving detail recovery and lossless audio passthrough. Why useful: Older archives, game captures, and compressed web clips often look soft on modern 4K displays. The upscaler reconstructs crisp edges frame-by-frame and preserves the original audio track without re-compression.
- **Seamless Overlap Splicer** (`seamless_cut`): Finds the exact matching frame and audio waveform between two overlapping recordings and joins them without a visible jump cut. Why useful: When a recording is split across two files with a few seconds of overlap, manually lining up the exact frame and audio sample in an editor is tedious. Seamless Overlap Splicer automatically aligns both visual frames and audio waveforms.
- **Semantic Clip Search (Neural Cut)** (`neural-cut`): Searches a video collection for scenes by spoken words or visual meaning and extracts the matching moments. Why useful: Finding a specific 15-second moment inside hours of unedited footage usually means scrubbing timelines by hand. Neural Cut indexes transcripts and visual keyframes so teams can jump straight to matching clips.
- **Scene Keyframe & Caption Indexer** (`visual_index`): Extracts representative keyframes whenever the camera scene changes and generates searchable visual descriptions. Why useful: B-roll libraries and silent footage have no dialogue to search. Scene Keyframe Indexer detects camera cuts, saves clean thumbnail frames, and tags them so footage is searchable visually.
- **Expressive Portrait Animator** (`live-portrait`): Transfers natural head movement and facial expressions from a driving video clip onto a still character portrait. Why useful: Lets storytellers, game developers, and presenters animate character portraits using a reference performance clip with smooth edge compositing.

## Tier 1: Flagship projects (11)

- [Video Studio](https://ngi.video/console) (Media & Video): Open your own video in the browser, try preview filters, record a short clip, and search a subtitle file.
- [Vox](https://voxlang.org) (AI, Compilers & Decision): A programming language designed so you describe your data once and get a matching database, server, and client.
- [FableForge](https://fableforge.to) (Games & Worlds): Make a character and walk around a living village, or start writing a branching story with art made for it.
- [GigMe](https://gigme.fableforge.to) (AI, Compilers & Decision): Practice job interviews, find out which of your skills hold up, and track which applications get replies.
- [Containment](https://containment.fableforge.to) (Games & Worlds): A modern-day tactical tabletop campaign that players join in the browser, with character sheets that handle gear math.
- [Ramada](https://ramada.fableforge.to) (AI, Compilers & Decision): Tell it what you're in the mood for tonight in Tucson, and it ranks places against simply staying home.
- [GreaterFool](https://ftt.fableforge.to) (AI, Compilers & Decision): Talk through a risky decision and see the exact odds next to the plain bottom line before you commit.
- [PeaceBoard](https://board.fableforge.to) (Systems & Ops): A weekly page of new federal filings and humanitarian data, with a link to each original document.
- [DirectFail Tax](https://tax.fableforge.to) (Systems & Ops): Sort your freelance business expenses with rules you can read, then fill in your Schedule C numbers.
- [Public API reference](https://ngi.video/api) (Media & Video): Read this site's public endpoints, try the read-only ones from your browser, and get the OpenAPI spec.
- [mcpMarvin](https://marvin.fableforge.to/health) (Systems & Ops): Let your AI assistant read today's schedule and add or check off tasks in your Amazing Marvin planner.

## Tier 2: Major Systems & Playable Engines (11)

- [Resonance](https://ngi.video/#portfolio) (Games & Worlds): Sneak, hack, fight, or talk your way through every mission in a first-person sci-fi harbor city.
- [GovSim](https://github.com/brbrainerd/govSim) (Games & Worlds): Play a fictional U.S. president for two terms and see how budget choices change everyday family budgets.
- [Open Melvor](https://ngi.video/#portfolio) (Games & Worlds): Train crafting, gathering, and combat skills in an idle RPG that keeps progressing while you are away.
- [py2so (Velocicode)](https://ngi.video/#portfolio) (AI, Compilers & Decision): Point it at slow Python code and it builds faster native versions, keeping only the ones whose output matches exactly.
- [Kineflow](https://ngi.video/#portfolio) (Media & Video): Edit a talking-head video by deleting words from its transcript, and the matching cuts happen on the timeline.
- [NeuroGecko](https://github.com/brbrainerd/neurogecko) (Neuroscience & Spatial): Rotate and slice real brain scans in three dimensions right inside your presentation slides without crashing the browser.
- [Cataclysm: Bright Nights](https://ngi.video/#portfolio) (Games & Worlds): Wire up base power, batch your crafting, and sort storage faster in a custom build of Cataclysm: Bright Nights.
- [brFinancier](https://ngi.video/#portfolio) (Systems & Ops): Import your bank statements, sort spending with your own rules, and see your monthly burn rate and runway.
- [TaleHall](https://ngi.video/#portfolio) (Games & Worlds): Host a tabletop campaign for friends with add-on versions locked in, so nothing breaks right before game night.
- [mcGreasemonkey](https://ngi.video/#portfolio) (Games & Worlds): Build factories in a Minecraft modpack where overlapping mods share one set of ores and recipes, tuned for multiplayer servers.
- [Mudlet DBE Suite](https://ngi.video/#portfolio) (Games & Worlds): Turn fast-scrolling combat text in a text-based RPG into live health bars, cooldown timers, and an automatic room map.

## Tier 3: Specialized Libraries, CLI Utilities & Hardware Tools (18)

- **Overlook (ytfloat)** (Media & Video): Keep a see-through video floating over your work on a Mac while your clicks pass straight to the app below.
- **Caption Flow** (Media & Video): Paste any phrase from a podcast to find the exact second it was said, and read captions as clean paragraphs.
- **brAutosub** (Media & Video): Find the videos in your folders that have no subtitles and caption them for free on your own computer.
- **brFrame** (Media & Video): Wake up to a historical photo taken exactly a century ago today, captioned and sent to your digital frame.
- **brUpVideo** (Media & Video): Upscale long videos to higher resolution on a home graphics card, in small tiles, and keep the audio.
- **Krita AI Box Select** (Media & Video): Drag a box around anything in a Krita painting and get a clean cutout selection on its own layer.
- **Neuroscience Atlas Mapper** (Neuroscience & Spatial): Load a spreadsheet of brain scan coordinates and get a table naming the brain region each one falls in.
- **Vuzix AR Assistant** (Neuroscience & Spatial): Read live captions of a conversation and follow checklists hands-free on the display of your Vuzix smart glasses.
- **StereoDesk** (Neuroscience & Spatial): Arrange browser panels and media at comfortable depths in three dimensions when you wear XR display glasses.
- **Coolify Deploy Kit** (Systems & Ops): Deploy your self-hosted site and only call it done once the live address answers cleanly three times in a row.
- **Storage Tier** (Systems & Ops): See which big folders sit unopened for weeks and move them to an archive drive without breaking file paths.
- **Hybrid Search Docker** (AI, Compilers & Decision): Search your own documents and code by meaning and by exact words at once, without sending anything to the cloud.
- **brPrompts** (AI, Compilers & Decision): Reuse written checklists for planning features and reviewing code, so AI-assisted work meets the same bar every time.
- **brML** (AI, Compilers & Decision): Run small machine-learning experiments with the hardware setup handled for you and clean logs you can compare.
- **brPerformanceTracker** (Games & Worlds): Find out what causes lag spikes in your survival game server by logging frame-rate dips, memory pauses, and enemy counts.
- **PG Bot Tools** (Systems & Ops): Turn raw game logs into charts of damage per second, item drop rates, and experience gained each session.
- **Hammerspoon Workstation** (Systems & Ops): Press one shortcut to lay out windows across all your Mac monitors and switch audio to the right device.
- **AI Dev Box** (Systems & Ops): Give AI coding tools a ready-made sandbox with compilers and browsers installed, so they never touch your personal files.