I guess it’s not powerful enough either… However I found an interesting topic about serving full rate great quality stream with HLS, with absolute no encoding (low CPU).
I just tested it and it works great with vlc. It should works with the Chrome Extension too.
ffmpeg -i rtsp://me:[email protected]:554/stream1 -acodec copy -vcodec copy -an -f hls -hls_flags delete_segments stream.m3u8