diff --git a/main.cpp b/main.cpp
index c06ae25..e78f501 100644
--- a/main.cpp
+++ b/main.cpp
@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ void treatChannelOrVideo(unsigned short threadId, bool isChannel, string id, str
                 // We are obliged to precise the video id after `--`, otherwise if the video id starts with `-` it's considered as an argument.
                 string cmdCommonPrefix = "yt-dlp --skip-download ",
                        cmdCommonPostfix = " -o '" + channelCaptionsToTreatDirectory + "_' -- " + videoId;
-                string cmd = cmdCommonPrefix + "--sub-lang all,-live_chat" + cmdCommonPostfix;
+                string cmd = cmdCommonPrefix + "--write-sub --sub-lang all,-live_chat" + cmdCommonPostfix;
                 exec(threadId, cmd);
 
                 // Secondly download the automatically generated captions.