Converting .dream to standard video format?

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.

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   

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?

Motsrox, cleaned up.

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...

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...

Just rename the .dream to .mpg..

Wow.  Old post revived.

Good thing.  I had almost forgotten about this one. 

An old post risen from the dead  

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.

Just rename the .dream to .mpg..

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

this will not work.

Linux ?  "This is wincustomize"

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.

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.