You can use the web player with Chrome (we use the Google one rather than Chromium since that has the built-in Flash player) for a similar effect, you just don't get remote management - it doesn't appear as a 'station' - so have to find some way of refreshing the page on each player when you make changes. Bit of an exercise for the reader, there are various ways you could do it and Linux is flexible enough.
A little hint:
unclutter & /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --kiosk --start-maximized --incognito --disable-infobars YOUR_PLAYER_URL
Where YOUR_PLAYER_URL is a html page containing the embed code. We also put a div around it with specific dimensions to keep everything contained to the correct size, some CSS to make it fill the screen and remove the URL to get rid of the scrollbar. You're not technically allowed to remove the URL per the EULA, so this can only be done privately/internally, you can't publish it anywhere as then you'd be breaking the agreement.
The unclutter package is needed and disables the mouse pointer after inactivity.
Making Linux + the web player act a bit like signageplayer is very hacky indeed especially if you want to try and have a refresh trigger mechanism, so if the above is not enough to help then it's a sign you should just get Android boxes
