Downloading Twitch subscriber VODs, nothing worked until I changed machine to youtube instead of twitch in netrc

[petitetit]

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251
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[twitch:vod] Downloading login page
[twitch:vod] Logging in
ERROR: Unable to login. Twitch said: captcha incorrect
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmph_ixabnp\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmph_ixabnp\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 507, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmph_ixabnp\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 411, in initialize
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmph_ixabnp\build\youtube_dl\extractor\twitch.py", line 64, in _real_initialize
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmph_ixabnp\build\youtube_dl\extractor\twitch.py", line 119, in _login
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmph_ixabnp\build\youtube_dl\extractor\twitch.py", line 96, in login_step
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmph_ixabnp\build\youtube_dl\extractor\twitch.py", line 73, in fail
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: Unable to login. Twitch said: captcha incorrect

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I started setting up youtube-dl today, and for the past 6 hours I failed, but I couldn't find what is the problem, finally I wanted to re-check if there are some netrc problems, so I tried intentionally putting machine youtube instead of machine twitch, and the download finally started. The only error, even with -v I received was that the captcha is incorrect. It is weird.

[dstftw]

Verbose log does not look valid.

[petitetit]

Can you try not closing the thread immediately next time, because in this context at least it was not that crucial.

I tried a few other variations. Even though login is required, the downloading works only with cookies, which makes sense, the thing is that it does not work at all when .netrc is provided (with or without cookies). When something else other than twitch is written in netrc after machine and if twitch is what I download from, this warning comes out:

WARNING: parsing .netrc: No authenticators for twitch (None, line None)

but the file is still being downloaded, while like I mentioned providing twitch as machine instead (which is the correct one) gives me:

ERROR: Unable to login. Twitch said: captcha incorrect

So apparently the thing I focused the most which were cookies are not the problem, but netrc is, the file is read so I haven't made a mistake there, the only thing that is problematic is when twitch is provided as machine and the error that captcha is invalid then occurs, what I am guessing is that it tries to re-captcha with the credentials of netrc while the already captched credentials of the cookies are trying to be imported afterwards, my question is:

Is netrc and cookies actually meant not to be used together?