It's funny but when I posted this question I had 14 Karma... now I have none?  Does that mean I'm dead?

I am still having problems with creating dreams... my videos all work as Dreams, but when I use the Dream making tool they don't work... is there an update I am unaware of?

And now... it's (my karma) is back again???!  Strange, very strange.  

Could have something to do with the codecs installed/not installed.

I was having this problem since last weekend, I updated my Codecs this morning with K-Lite full install for 64 bit and I also re-set and deleted my old settings during this time.  

I have 0 problems with any of my videos running as a mpg or as a wmv, but once I use the dream maker the videos crash the Deskscapes program even though those very same files work just fine as a mpeg or wmv and can be applied using the Deskscapes program with no issues.

I've been uploading my Dream files as mpeg and wmv files on my YouTube site because of this problem.

My youtube site is - http://www.youtube.com/user/Pegusis2/videos

I'd rather be posting them here, but mpeg and wmv files are not accepted.

Codec packs tend to cause issues with Deskscapes.  Check out the guide here to see if one of the pack codecs is interfering:

https://www.stardock.com/products/DeskScapes/faq.asp#troubleshooting

I read the article that you posted a link to, I downloaded the program called InstalledCodec and it shows that my Microsoft MPEG-2 Video Encoder for Windows 7 is Not Disabled and the installed codec date is 7/14/2009 1:53:38 AM and the last modified time is - 11/21/2010 12:25:14 AM...  2 years ago, so it's not a recent change to my MPEG-2 Codec.

I am able to run Dream Files, I am able to download and run all the .dream files with no problem, but when I create a dream with the Dream making tool the files that are produced do not work.

I appreciate the article but I don't think this is the issue.

Thanks Rosco

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Can you upload the two source videos somewhere so we can look at them?

You can try anyone of my files off of youtube - http://www.youtube.com/user/Pegusis2 , choose a recent one, any of the last 10 to 15 files.

I do thank everyone who is trying to help    with this problem.

If you use Freemake Video Downloader you can choose the type of file you want to download, it gives you the choice of flv, mpeg, avi and so on.

I've been downloading this way for quite awhile and I have used the files this way to create dreams in the past.

You see where this is going?  

I hear what you are saying...

I've been creating dreams this way for the last 5 years or more...  These are not the files that are causing the problem.

The files I create are from single frame images created in a Fractal program, I take the individual files into Video Wave, make each frame .33 seconds long and a fast fade between the frames.  The Dream https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/dream/3982/ (Gold Star Fractal) was created this way... it works, it is located on the Wincustomize site.  I do not believe I am doing anything different that I did when I created this dream (Gold Star Fractal).

The dreams I've been trying to create since are not working.

I can take a video and cut it up and make a dream out of it, I've also made many dreams out of one image to many images.  It's been since the weekend that DreamMaker Tool creates a Dud when I run the program to create the Dream.  The original video file (a mpeg or a wmv) works fine when using Deskscapes to apply the video as a Dream, it's only after I run the DreamMaker tool to convert the video to the .dream format that it does not work in Deskscapes.  

Deskscapes works fine, Dream files work just fine, but any new dreams I create with the dreammakeing tool do not work even though they work just fine in the original format as a deskscape.

I re-installed deskscapes and it did not make any difference... oh and I rebooted since.

I just re-created a Dream that I had created a while ago as a test dream and it works, I did not have any problems running it or applying it.  So it does not appear to be a a problem with the DreamMaker tool.  I used an mpeg file for the test.

So it's got something to do with the way I am creating the video file.  I have been saving as both Mpeg and Wmv files and these do not appear to work.  I thought it might be the image file format but I've used - bmp, jpg and png formats and it does not appear to make a difference.

Looks like it's back to the drawing board.