It works great and have no complains, but I'm gonna throw a suggestion out there. VLC is terrible for playing http / hls / mpd content. I mean really terrible, you pause the video and when you resume it will just stop and wont remember las playback position, it wont cache content properly, etc. I started using mplayer derivates and now Im really happy (smplayer, potplayer) but I can't use this extension. I use one that is called videodownloadhelper, copy the link, and paste it on the player. So anyhow, my sugestion is: create an extension that allows you to open this kind of media using whatever program you want. Another thing ist that using just the url allows is closing the browser, and the playback wont stop, I don't know if that's a browser limitation or by design.