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1 month agoI don’t use that client either - But to be fair the dev (Kevin Hearn) has a long history with P2P software e.g. depending how old you are you may have used his WinMX software back in the day. He isn’t known for sticking spyware/malware into his software so I sort of trust the software he puts out in that sense. He also maintains other non-torrent P2P file sharing software outside of Tixati.
Of course it would be better if it was open source but he’s never been an open source coder AFAIK.
The paid way to do this is is to buy something like Streamfab to download the stream directly from the source. Note for the most part you will be limited to 720p/1080p. Another paid software that used to be around was Redfox AnyStream but they went offline last year.
Only private trackers / scene would know about 2160p / 4K downloads and they’re not going to share publicly about their methods.
The free method is to attempt to do the video capture yourself (see earlier comments) rather than download the stream itself.
Of course for the most part tons of content has already been downloaded by others and made available via torrents, DDL, etc.