Any way to intake a stream other than browser source or VLC?

[DasDrummers]

I was wondering if there was anyway for me to intake other streams other than Browser source or VLC. Im finding that browser source is really annoying cus you have no control of ads, BUT i also have a problem with VLC plugin cus i feel its very buggy and works....sometimes for me. But the lag that comes with VLC compared to the actual live stream is pretty bad. ( what i mean by this is the stream delay ). Is there a way to stop ads on a browser souce? is there something more consistent than VLC?

 

[FerretBomb]

OBS isn't meant for scraping and using others' content.

If you're co-streaming together as a prearranged event, one solution is to set up an nginx-rtmp server and have all streamers connect and stream to that, with OBS pulling those streams down directly and aggregating them together. Unfortunately this isn't technically simple to do, especially when it comes to securing the server. There are a number of tutorials around for how to set up and configure nginx-rtmp though.