Yes, that's precisely what I've done, thanxx (but it shouldn't be necessary to do it this way, the vlcArgs should handle this but it doesn't, or at least doesn't work on my setup).
Anyway, reading more thru the Webchimera site I found out that on Windows (I'm under Win7 SP1 x64, great OS btw) it's kinda hard to position control elements over the video surface with the Plugin alone, while the Player offers this capability upfront.
Though tbh I still have to figure out how this whole Player thing is architectured and works together, why instructions in QML seem to double up with instructions in JS, how to customize the Player U/I, etc...). I see that just the QML part requires over 1500 lines of code to make the Player demo work, so I'm a bit concerned with the amount of effort I'll have to put into this.
But you're right that QML is probably not that difficult a langage to learn, it looks just like a specialized (U/I oriented) version of JS/JSON.