Converting .dream to standard video format?
for the Linux-Guys out there...
Sunday, June 3, 2007 by motsrox | Discussion: Animated Wallpapers
Reply #2 Sunday, June 3, 2007 11:21 AM
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
Reply #3 Sunday, June 3, 2007 3:08 PM
. @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?
Reply #5 Monday, June 4, 2007 10:25 AM
Reply #6 Monday, June 4, 2007 12:01 PM
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...
Reply #7 Monday, June 4, 2007 4:26 PM
Reply #9 Tuesday, August 12, 2008 11:33 AM
Good thing. I had almost forgotten about this one.
Reply #11 Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:09 PM
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.
Reply #12 Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:28 PM
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"
Reply #13 Tuesday, October 13, 2009 1:30 AM
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.
Reply #14 Tuesday, October 13, 2009 1:40 AM
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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Reply #1 Sunday, June 3, 2007 6:15 AM