windows, I am installing streamlink twitch gui as we speak...

yeah i tried that but it finished downloading a 13 hour stream in like 2 mins and then it does;nt even wanna open, i even tried copying the link and dl with idm, pretty sure idm just dl a m3u8 file with index-dvr something. as for ytdlp, cmd line is too much for me but someone said ytldlp wont work for my requirements (dl sub only vod without subbing)

thanks bro i will try it out coz twitch loves to mute a lot of segments... what is the script you used?

Can you link a guide to his to use the cookie command line argument. I'm a noob when it comes to command line stuff. And are you sure this let's you DL without subscribing to the Twitch channel?