The purpose of this guide is to walk DeskScapes users through steps to diagnose why animated wallpaper will not apply. There are key pieces that DeskScapes requires must be working in order for animated wallpaper to apply.
1. MPEG-2 Video Codec (for video dreams to work)
2. DirectX9 (D3D) must be installed (for dynamic dreams to work)
3. Desktop Window Manager (DWM) must be running (for any dream to work)
This guide will outline what do to in order to check that all of these pieces are working. MPEG-2 Video Codec If you are reading this document and are not familiar with the concept of a Video Codec a quick visit to this page is in order to familiarize yourself with codec software.
To display video dreams with DeskScapes, an MPEG-2 Video Decoder must be installed on your computer. Certain versions of Windows Vista (Home Premium and Ultimate) include a codec provided by Microsoft (the MicrosoftMPEG-2 Video Decoder). DeskScapes has been fully tested with the Microsoft MPEG-2 Video Decoder. In order to determine if you have a proper video codec utilizing a third party utility usually works best. We usually like to use this utility called NirSoft InstalledCodec. You can download NirSoft's InstalledCodec from here.
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