motsrox

Join Date 06/2007

Converting .dream to standard video format?

for the Linux-Guys out there...

Hi, i'm using Linux which has had sth similiar to DreamScene (playing videos/animations on the desktop) for quite a long time. But I can only use video formats (avi, mpg, wmv, mov, ogg, mkv....) , so is there any way to convert .dream to a normal video format?

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I think you can request video from dream author or extract dream on your friend's computer running Vista Ultimate to get video from he's C:\ProgramData\Stardock\DeskScapes\ExtractedData folder.

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Just to add to the above post.

If you like any of my dreams. I would be happy to supply you a download link for the mpg versions.

You can also mail me if you like.

00NukE

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00NukE, I'd be happy about every new Video-Loop I can get, and yours even seem to be good, so please give me a mpg-link

. @The StarDock guys: I know you are Windows-Coders and luckily I still have a copy of windows XP running, so how about a little XP-Program, that does nothing but extracting the .dream?

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CerebroJD

Join Date 01/2003

Motsrox, cleaned up.

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ty, and if you're part of the Stardock-Team: would a .dream-extracting program be possible?

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Jafo

Join Date 03/2001

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ty, and if you're part of the Stardock-Team: would a .dream-extracting program be possible

It would be 'possible', but the issue would be that whereas a .dream format file may include Artist's details etc [copyright info], once the video was extracted the author would lose control of his copyright/distribution conditions...

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well, but if those files already get extracted to C:\ProgramData\Stardock\DeskScapes\ExtractedData when using Deskscapes on Vista-Ultimate, you only increase the number of people able to extract, a possibility already exists...

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Just rename the .dream to .mpg..

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ZubaZ

Join Date 11/2001

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Wow. Old post revived.

Good thing. I had almost forgotten about this one.

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CarGuy1

Join Date 03/2007

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An old post risen from the dead

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Well I tried doing the rename the extention to mpg but when I try to play them with media player or on of my other DVD players that can do mpg files they both reported some complaint about unsupported format.

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amitsaran

Join Date 01/2009

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Just rename the .dream to .mpg..

this is just like calling any other animal by your pet's name........hahaha

this will not work.

Linux ? "This is wincustomize"

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Quoting motsrox,

reply 7

I imagine that if they allow you to access the functions/methods from their dll files, you should be able to programmatically launch Deskscapes and make a call to the function/method that they use to set the current dream selection (via PInvoke). Then you should be able to point the program to the ExtractedData folder and retrieve the video file.

EDIT: The reason that you would have to launch Deskscapes is that the video isn't loaded into the ExtractedData folder until the Dream is launched.

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Quoting Jafo,

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ty, and if you're part of the Stardock-Team: would a .dream-extracting program be possible

It would be 'possible', but the issue would be that whereas a .dream format file may include Artist's details etc [copyright info], once the video was extracted the author would lose control of his copyright/distribution conditions...

Is there a way to set it up so that the author could generate a key to provide to the users that they wish to allow this privelege to? The program could be written to accept this key, verify it, and then proceed with the extraction. The key could be generated by a Web Service on Stardock's Servers and returned to the author of the Dream. Then, when the user entered the key, it would be sent to the Web Service for comparison and the Web Service would return a response to the program on whether or not it could unlock and extract the Dream.

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