I use a browser to browse http and then open links in vlc or mx player or whatever player I want. I also have a webdav which I use either kodi or a webdav client for android or linux.
vlc or mx player is good for quick access on android. I use vlc and others from a desktop. Kodi uses webdav as a source as well for my main TV/Media centers. They all stream perfectly.
The one pain point you will have right now is if you use rclone serve http, you won't get times in the default rclone web server templates but that is being worked on hopefully for the next release with better templating.
If you want a light-weight solution using http rather than samba (which always seems to have performance issues in the forums) then the other possibility is to run caddy as a webserver frontend with the rclone mount as a backend. caddy is super easy to implement and the browser interface is pretty nice for filtering and such.
I prefer to keep things simple.