Dream Extraction

Hey Jim,

I have forwarded your question to Stardock Support team for their assistance. Please keep an eye on this thread for any updates. We appreciate your feedback and patience.

Basj

Stardock Community Assistant.

No Jim can't get video from the dream 

but most dream now have a video preview 

and you can download that in most cases .

Bummer. The dream in question is older, has no video preview, I don't think.

if it's one of my dreams I might still have the video .

Hello,

I would have to research it but there is no known tool for it that I am aware of.

Another option would be to contact the author for the raw footage.

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Sean Drohan
Stardock Customer Service Manager

I see this:

If the dream is installed on your machine, the package is extracted when you preview it in Deskscapes.  A directory is created C:\ProgramData\Stardock\DeskScapes\ExtractedData\[DreamName]{additional text}.  The video should be in that directory with the usual appendage.

I saw that too, Dave. Nothing there but a dream file.

The one I would like to use on the Mac is Ninja Star, by the great Cha Ninja.  I'll bet finding him would be nearly impossible.

Ah.  That's a hybrid dream.  After it's extracted I see 8 files, one of which is NinjaStar-2_00000.NWA.  That's the animation that runs on top of the backgrounds, there isn't any actual mpg/wmv on hybrids.  Not quite sure what to tell you there.  If you can figure out a way to convert the NWA you might be able to use that, but it would just be the moving image without the wallpaper background, you'd probably want to merge it with a static background somehow.

I didn't know that but now I do .

But only for the AVI or WMV dreams that are in your dreams folder currently,

not for any past dreams that might have been there .

and excluding Hybrids.

I don't have NinjaStar

I'm trying to contact Cha. Thanks guys! 

Yes NWA files are a proprietary format which you will not find any conversion utilities for.

The original author is the best bet here though the NWA had alpha so it might be some work for them to render things out with a background instead.

5 will get you 10 that the easiest way is to grab your mobile and take a video of the dream running on your machine....and use that.

Sometimes the old/rough way is the only way...;)

There's an idea!  Thanks Paul!

Or you can use those screen capture program like TinyTake for it..

I haven't had time to capture the dream yet.

I have, however, been running videos as my wallpaper on Mac. Easy, with VLC.

You got a Mac? Not sure it'll work on Windows.

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html 

Well, there are instructions on the web as to how to make it happen. Settings and such. Also, you can find some killer video (Apple TV screensaver) called Aerial. Works a charm!

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/18167/set-a-video-as-your-desktop-wallpaper-with-vlc/ 

See PM.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/11/13/how-to-replace-dynamic-desktop-with-video-wallpaper-in-macos-mojave 

I seem to have given instructions for windows. This is for Mac. Sorry.