you can also pipe twitch streams directly to the video player of your choice, which is quite nice imo
https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink
once you set the path in ur environment variables you can just type into a command prompt to start a stream
you can even open up a chat box with a small .bat script at the same time
start chrome --app=https://www.twitch.tv/popout/%1/chat?popout=
streamlink twitch.tv/%1 bestneedless to say this bypasses ads in their entirety and you only get the stream
so if you put those two lines in a "twitch.bat" for example, you could type in cmd "twitch etherr_" and it would open up his stream in ur video player and his chat simultaneously
edit: make the bat script work for any passed twitch name