How to record from WWE Network?
 

I have a paid subscription to a video network service. I can watch it on my computer. On this network service, you can watch individual things and I want to record/save things off of there. I'll be doing this on my computer.

How do I go about doing that?

What program(s) would I need for this?

Thanks

Which service? Some have tools for it, some do not. (If this is WWE, you're in luck.)

It is, haha

edit:
Oops, meant to say it is WWE Network

Get LetMeAtIt: http://www.airesoft.co.uk/WWENetwork

And pay £6 (about $7.65) for the premium upgrade, don't be cheap: http://www.airesoft.co.uk/upgrade

I'd used that for several years, before cancelling my WWE sub back in Feb this year. I wanted to sit in front of my TV, not my computer. I have probably 4tb of shows saved, mostly the Attitude Era stuff. I never saw every RAW episode, sometimes not even whole shows, mostly because of my work schedule back in the day. Rarely saw anything WCW. But now I can.

As a tip, just get the 960x480 streams. Not bigger, not smaller. Balance of good quality and space. (The black pillar bars are encoded into the 720x480 file, hence 960x. I think the bitrate was the 1280kpbs, or something to that effect. Again, not used it in 6 months.)

Enjoy. :)

Awesome. Thanks for the advice!

I'm going to be putting the matches I downloaded onto DVD. Do you recommend still using those same settings?

Yeah, but DVD you'll lose some slight quality. What are you using for the conversion and authoring? Personally, I'd only bother using ConvertXtoDVD if converting the streams to disc. Get the 960x480, and let it re-encode to 16x9 720x480. Sometimes you can be lazy, use an all-in-one, and this is one of those times.

I've been using DVD styler. I don't think my old DVD making program is compatible with my new computer

Yeah I'm making a set for someone and I have to hav done by like, Thursday with a ways to go, so definitely the laziest, quickest way is what I'm looking for haha

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I just got the program. However, it doesn't seem to offer 960x480.

The quality options are
640x360 1284 kbps
960x540 1929 kbps
960x540 2573 kbps
960x720 3218 kbps
1280x720 4829 kbps

This is it: 960x540 @ 1929 kbps
As mentioned, I'd not used it for 6 months, was going from memory.

Ok, thanks. Do you know how to make it so it snags only 1 match? I searched the person's name, went to a specific match, took the URL for that match and posted it into the program and I stopped it as it was downloading the entire PPV (not the specific match only) which was over 1300 files, so I cancelled that.

Definitely wasn't expecting that

You grab whole files. There are no match files, just bookmarks. Most don't even have that. Honestly, the bookmarks all suck, incomplete, not always positioned correctly. I almost never used them for that reason.

I'm having some problems with it. When I added the URL and put in my network ID and PW, and hit add job, the attached error is coming up.

I even deleted the program and redownloaded it and still getting this error

Also, since you have to download the entire PPV, and not just a separate match, what program would you suggest that I use to edit everything out, and leave only just the 1 match that I want?

As far as the program working, you'll have to ask the developer. Or read their docs/FAQs.

For editing, I'd use the payware TMPGEnc Smart Renderer, it's extremely easy to do. For freeware, no idea, most only cuts at keyframes. Or you'll have to extract to another format, edit, then convert it again to a watchable format. Some things gets messy trying to only use freeware, and this is one of them. H.264 is not easy to edit.

Well, easy is definitely a good thing. Quick crash course?

Like, Is it just a basic video timeline, I drag scissors cut, delete what I don't want?

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Several questions in this one

Disregard the crash course q, I figured out the program.

I also just downloaded ConvertXtoDVD, as you suggested. For the conversion, I found where to change it to 16x9 as you suggested. But I don't see where to change it to 720x480. Where do I find that option at?

Also, under the Video Processing option, it has it defaulted to Letterbox, under Resize Method. Should I leave it to that, or maybe change it to "Stretch"?

**Update a few minutes after I originally posted this** I did a conversion to test it. After it was done, I saw it made a folder for it, with Video & Audio TS folders, and it was like, 550MB

However, the original file before I converted it, was around 100 mb, so it seemed to make it bigger after converting it. I wasn't expecting that. Did I do it wrong?

Wouldn't it of been better to not convert it, so it stayed as a smaller file?

TMPGEnc SR = mostly cutting, some syncing ability. (WWE is pretty good about sync, even better than Netflix/Hulu.)

ConvertXtoDVD only makes 720x480 i NTSC, 720x576 if PAL. No option.

Leave letterbox, respect source AR.

MPEG is larger than H.264, yes.

Yes, leaving it as is, not converting to DVD, is what I did. Keeps file sizes down, and I plan to watch it streaming internally from my HDD anyway. I really don't use discs anymore.