Why do some videos work and others don't?

Same format video created the same way

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I've been creating videos for sometime now and every once in awhile I get a video that won't work after I've created into the Dream Format.  I could create two dreams the same way and one will work and the other will not... am I missing something?

 

Just today I created a new FracTal the same way I created one day before, the one I've been waiting to post up does not work after I change the format to the Dream format.  Both of the Fractals were created by static images and brought into Video Wave and saved the same way or at least they appear to be saving the same way, I choose the format, name the file and press save... most work but it seems no matter what I do to some they just will not work as a Dream file.

 

What happens after I save the file in the Dream format using the Dream making tool, when I go to apply it with the Configure Deskscapes the program crashes and will not let me choose that file with out crashing, the original file works fine when I set it to my Desktop wallpaper in the WMV format or the MPEG format but will not work after it has been ran in the DreamMaker tool.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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?

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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

 

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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.

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Peggy2, reply 9
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.
 Those are not the source files . . those are flash movies that were presumably converted from the source.

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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.

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Peggy2, reply 12
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.
That takes the FLV file and converts it into yet another  format . . .

You see where this is going?  ;)

Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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.

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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.

Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I did FracTal Golden Planet Explorer II  to a .dream woks fine..

 

from Mpg4 aka Youtube  to Mpg-2-PS  Bit 20,000K, 30fps, 16:9 HD 1080

 

 

try a system restore

 

NOTE on my pc desktop if fills the screen it has to be a setting in the Screen recorder  NOT the DREAM

 

Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I wonder if I download my file back off YouTube and then try to render the dream if it will work.?.  I'm going to give it a shot.

I won't be surprised if this works. 

 

Big thanks for showing this in a video format and taking the time to do so.

Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top

First off I want to Thank you all for helping.

I figured out what the problem has been.  I've been saving my image files as png's and jpg's, the first fractal I did was in bmp's these work.  The .jpg and .png files even though they work to create the movies, they however have a problem being saved in a Mpeg - 2 format.  I've tried the .bmp format in creating a movie and I have no problem, my Dream files work.

 

Note to self - BMP files for FracTals.

 

Again thanks,

 

CPMacD. :D

Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Peggy2, reply 20
Note to self - BMP files for FracTals.

so your saying ONLY fracTals  cause all my dreams are made from PNG's

 

 

 

Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top

glad you figured it out.  who knew it was that far in the source file chain. :

Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Zubaz, reply 22
glad you figured it out.  who knew it was that far in the source file chain. :

Haven't you ever seen Multiplicity?  (The movie, not the software ;) )  A copy of a copy never quite comes out the same as the original.

Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I just figured out that the Dreams I've been creating were working, they work fine on my other computer just not on my New one!?!

My new computer, a Windows 7 Home Premium, is what I have been using to create my fractals.  All of the videos work fine as an animated wallpaper (mpeg or wmv format), but when I was changing them to a Dream they would not work or crashed DeskScapes program.  This morning I copied a couple of dreams from this computer to my old Vista machine and I find out Dreams have been working just not on my Windows 7 box.

The Windows 7 box has no problem running Most Dreams, just not the dreams this computer creates???  If I create the dream on my Win 7 and copy to my old Vista machine they work and have no issue...... OK Now I'm confused. 

This does not make good sense.  For now when I create a Dream I will copy to my old Vista and try them and if they work great.

Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top

To - Disturbedcomputer

 

No... I'm saying My Windows 7 box is screwy...  The dreams that I've been creating work fine on my old Vista computer but I only figured that out this morning when I copied a couple of the dreams to it.

 

It seems my new computer can run mpeg and wmv files no problem, it can also run Dream format files as well, just not the ones I create on this computer... for what ever reason that is... because those same files that I've been creating work fine on the other comptuer... who new???

 

For now I'll just have to try the dreams I create on a different computer before I upload.  I've re-installed Deskscapes yesterday and it does not seem to have fixed the problem.

 

Ps... thnx again to all.