4 Tools to Record Hulu (Live) TV

– Live TV streaming only lives for once, and for some contents you want to view more than one time or you don’t have time to sit in front of the monitor to watch, you need to do recording.

– Sometimes when you go for a travel or holiday, you want to pass time with Hulu TVs on the airplane or other wireless places, and at this time, you need to record them in advance for offline playback.
– Also for those non-live video-on-demand videos, once your subscription goes to an end, you can’t access and play those you haven’t finished any more.

So here we give several tools to record Hulu Live TV or  general subscribed  video-on-demand video at will.

1. Hulu’s Cloud DVR

Hulu gives its Live TV subscribers a Cloud DVR service to record any TV shows, movies, and other live events for playback. So you don’t have to worry about missing what you love for various reasons, just add the right name(s) to “My Stuff” to record. But the default free storage is only 50-hour. Once it reaches the full capacity, new recording will replace the older according to the time order.

You can choose to upgrade the storage to 200 hours by paying a $9.99 montly fee for Enhanced Cloud DVR Add-on, with which you can also enjoy extra ability to fast forward through recording ads.

2. Third-party DVR Streaming Recorder like Audials

You can also hire dedicated streaming DRM remover and recorder software like that from Audials, PlayOn etc. This kind of streaming recorder is able to access & remove DRM and record any movies, TVs and matches so that you can open them at will regardless of the playback devices.

3. VCR or DVD Recorder

VCR and DVD recorders seem a little bit old-fashioned, but they work quite well on Hulu content recording. Once your set-box DVR keeps shows locally, you can output them from DVR and input them into VCR/DVD machine with related cable.

4. Screen Recorder like RecMaster plus DRM Crack Tool

Widevine DRM is the copy protection tech that Hulu as well as many other streaming giants adopt in their subscribed media. As one of the less secure DRM implement, L3 carries low-quality video and audio data and is not hard to decrypt. In the past 2019, a security researcher has cracked it successfully. After decrypting Hulu video with third-party tool like WidevineCDM, you can watch and record any Hulu-locked content with RecMaster screen recorder for unrestricted playback in clicks. For ad-included videos, you’d better pause and resume the recording to skip the ad forward. And for upcoming Live show, you can create and enable a scheduled task to auto-start the capture at time.

How to Capture Screen Video with Nvidia Share/Shadowplay

Nvidia has its own screen recording tool to help its graphics card owner capture game video effectively, and that’s exactly the Nvidia Share, previously known as ShadowPlay. It's a bundled utility of Geforce Experience, a companion application for Nvidia GPU users to update driver, improve gaming performance and share screen. Specifically, the Nvidia Share has 2 core features regarding screencasting: Instant Replay and Record.

What’s the difference between instant replay and record? 

–  Instant Replay automatically records gameplay in the background, and whenever you have some moments to save like killstream, you should  press hotkey to save the last 5-min (adjustable) game video locally. If you don't save it, the cache recording will be discarded and replaced by later data.

–  Record of Nvidia Share is a manually recording mode. Only when you make it happen, it starts the real-time recording and hardware-accelerated encoding. You also need to give it to an end manually. 

Nvidia Video Capture Supported PC, Games, Settings..

● System requirement of Geforce Experience Share: Windows 7/8/10 with Nvidia GTX 600 series card or higher (More details)
● Geforce Experience and Share supported games: DirectX 9/10/11-based games. Note that OpenGL games are only supported at windowed mode. (Supported games)
● Video Formats: H.264 MP4
● Instant Replay length: 0.25 – 20 minutes
● Manual recording length:
For Windows 7, it’s limited to 4GB (about 20 minutes depending on quality settings).
For Windows 8 or later, there’s no time limit as long as the free disk space is enough.
● Capture quality: Low, Medium, and High. Customization is also available.
● Resolution: up to 1440p HD
● Frame rate: up to 60fps
● Bit rate: 10 – 50 Mbps

How to Use Nvidia Screen Recorder to Capture Screen Video

This is how Nvidia screen recorder works on your computer:

Step 1. Enable Nvidia Share

Surely, the premise of a normal Nvidia recorder usage is that its Share feature is enabled. Check and enable it under Settings -> General -> Share.

Step 2. Choose the Recording Mode
As mentioned above, Share has two capture modes – Instant Replay and manual Record. You decide which is more suitable for you according to your actual requirement.

Step 3 – Set for Recording
The settings may include that listed Nvidia Video Capture Settings in the previous part like video quality, length, resolution, fps and bitrate, and some others like audio source/volume, recording saving path, HUD layout contents (camera, FPS conter etc.) and position.

Another thing you should to know is that Nvidia Share supports both windowed and full desktop capture. To conduct an entire desk recording, you should open up Privacy control panel under Settings and toggle the Desktop capture option to the green-background “On” status.

Step 4 – Start and End Recording
Everything prepared well, run your PC game and go ahead the capture in its own way. Below are some hotkey concerning Nvidia recording:
Alt+Shift+F10: Turn on or off the Instant Replay
Alt + F10: Save the last x minutes recorded when Instant Replay is on.
Alt + F9: Toggle manual recording on or off. Save the manual recorded video.

After the recording, you can directly upload the clip onto social media platforms on the overlay.

Limits of Nvidia Screen Recorder

☛ GeForce Experience is born with advantages on game recording thanks to the hardware accelerated processing and less performance penalty (about 5-10%). However, if your GeForce video card of desktop or notebook is not competent for that, say GTX 500 series or lower, you will lose the chance to enjoy GeForce Experience screen recorder.

☛ Then since GeForce Experience is a multifunctional program which is designed for updating graphics driver, optimizing gaming performance, as well as screen capturing and live broadcasting, it puts more efforts on feature balance and basic game capture, missing some settings or functions that many common dedicated screen recorder will embed, for instance, non-game recording, recording formats, edit suites, and scheduled recording.

☛ At last, as we’ve shown above, Windows 7 users can simply document around 20-min game fight and couldn’t benefit from the unlimited manual recording like Windows 8 and 10 hosts.

How to Record Gameplay or Other Screen Content at will?

If you are up a creek of either of these circumstances, you will have to turn to some best Nvidia screen recorder alternative like RecMaster. RecMaster is an easy yet feature-laden screen recording software program. With it, you can capture any DirectX game or non-game video with audio on desktop at your perfered size, format and quality. Multiple-monitor capture, automatic capture, webcam overlay, voice narration, in-game annotating, defined watermark, bundled video editor and one-click sharing are all here to ensure a happy customized journey. Now let’s take a look at how it works on computer. You are suggested to free download it here and set it up on your machine.

How to Screen Record Game or Non-game Video with RecMaster on PC/Mac

Step 1 – Prepare Content and Choose a Recording Mode
Depending on the recording content, you should select one recording mode once you launch RecMaster.

Game Mode is a Windows-only feature that’s especially developed for PC gamer. Something like Nvidia’s manual recording, it helps you keep the whole gameplay walkthrough or some crucial segments as 1080p HD/4K@60FPS MP4.
Full Screen is to grab the whole display video.
Custom Area is used for any certain region recording, maybe an app, a browser tab, or something else.
Webcam simply records and outputs camera video of integrated or external front cam.
Audio Only serves as an audio recorder for maintaining any online ratio, music, podcast and so on.

In most cases, Game Mode is the go-to option for game capture, and Full Screen & Custom Area for general non-game recording. Nevertheless, if your PC game doesn’t cooperate with Game Mode, switching recording mode is a reliable workaround.

Step 2 – Do Settings
For video capture, you can adjust video format (MP4/AVI/FLV), define a quality level and frame rate value. Also, you can mix webcam overlay, system sound and voiceover from mic. If you want to achieve more watermark and cursor effects, go to Settings panel to do so,

For auto-capture, please open up Schedule task control, fix the start & end time, and then don’t forget to enable the task.

Step 3 – Record and Stop
Pressing the red buttons to start and stop the recording. During the process, the mini floating bar gives you access to annotation too. After the recording, the recording list offers entrances to editor and social share.

RecMaster Hotkeys:
Start/Pause recording: Alt+1
End recording: Alt+2
Show main window: Alt+3
Hide/Show webcam: Alt+4

QuickTime Player Screen Recording with Audio: Just Follow this Guide

The simplest way to capture Mac screen is to utilize the macOS-bundled tool – QiuckTime. This versatile media player, similar to top-notch VLC, provides screen recording feature to meet the potential video capture needs. With it, you can select any specific region or the whole desktop to record, with audio coming from mic or not. Internal system sound cannot be grabbed due to the copyright and piracy issue. However this is a workaround…

How to Use QuickTime Player to Record Mac Screen

The workflow of QuickTime screen recording is quite easy and you can follow the steps below:

Step 1: Open up QuickTime, navigate to File menu on the top toolbar and click “New Screen Recording”.

Step 2: The related screen recording prompt will pop up. For macOS Mojave or Catalina users, a brand-new Screencast app shows up (which can also be called out by pressing Shift-Command-5). While for earlier system users, it’s the QuickTime-style “Screen Recording” control.

Step 3: Define the target recording area through ready-made options (shown below) and mouse. Then set the Microphone source, Save to path, Timer, and others like whether to Show Mouse Clicks or not during recording.

Earlier Screen Recording panel works a little bit different. By clicking the down arrow, you are only given Microphone and Options. Recording region selection is available after tapping the record button.

Step 3: Start and end QuickTime screen recording. Note that the stop button is located in the menu bar.
Step 4: Utilize the thumbnail to trim, save, or share.

Many users get troubled in stopping the QuickTime capture, like they don’t know “how to stop QuickTime screen recording” or the “stop button on menu bar can’t stop recording” exactly. In view of this, you are suggested to try button and shortcut methods back and forth. Below are some shortcut details for QuickTime screen recording on macOS 10.15 & 10.14.

Action	Shortcut
New screen recording	Control-Command-N
Open Screenshot app	Shift-Command-5
Capture the entire screen	Shift-Command-3
Capture a portion of the screen	Press Shift-Command-4 to select
Capture a window or the menu bar	Press Shift-Command-4 -> Space bar to choose with camera pointer
Capture a menu and menu items	Press Shift-Command-4 to choose the menu item with pointer once you opened the menu.
Capture the Touch Bar	Shift-Command-6.
Stop the Recording	Command-Control-Esc

QuickTime offers no way to grab sound from system and built-in apps like QuickTime itself, Skype, WhatsApp, Zoom, Facebook, and YouTube, then how to walk this through? Just keep your patience to move on.

How to Record Mac Screen with Internal Audio?

The screen audio recording limitation of QuickTime paves the way for both third-party virtual audio driver and Mac screen recorder with audio. In other words, you have 2 ways to achieve a regular screen recording with internal audio.

Way 1 – Use QuickTime Plus Third-party Audio Driver
Once you install any kernel extension like Soundflower, the extension will route audio from any app to another. Thus, QuickTime is empowered to grab app sound. There are also many Soundflower-alike virtual audio drivers, such as Blackhole and Loopback.

Way 2 – User Third-party Mac Screen and Audio Recorder
Standalone desktop screen recording software comes in handy and is the most recommended way to make screencast. For one thing, screen recorder is more powerful than amateurish QuickTime screen recording by offering more flexible settings and effects. For another, without seeking for any third-party driver setup, the program itself is able to handle audio capture perfectly. Here we take how RecMaster works as the demonstration.

RecMaster is an easy but slick screen recorder with intuitive interface. It supports any kinds of screen video recordings like game capture, entire screen capture, certain app capture, a fixed area capture, webcam capture and pure audio capture. To help create more engaged and eye-catching footage, RecMaster enables you to superimpose front camera face into screen at any position and size for explanation, to show and highlight mouse cursor for demos, as well as make annotations for instructions. Now please download and install it on your Mac machine for easier screen recording.

Steps on how RecMaster records:

Step 1. Prepare your capture content and open RecMaster for Mac
Step 2. Choose the right mode. When heading over to the secondary window, check and alter the presets if it’s necessary. You are free to customize video format, quality, frame rate, webcam mix, audio source and recording length.

Step 3. Click record button to make the capture happen. Note that the annotation feature will come to RecMaster for Mac soon.
Step 4. Stop the recording. Then play and do easy edits.