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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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

Because some people work and some dont...

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.

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

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.