I am also a real newbie with Joomla, and AllVideos is the first video player I have ever used. I installed it fine, and it works well on all the browsers I have tried, except that I get the exact problem you outlined above with Chrome. The control bar reports as one pixel too long on Chrome, so the end wraps around and produces a black pixel with the ] character in it (the closing bit of the control bar) on the next line.
I have not been able to fix it, and was intrigued by your solution. Only problem? As a real newbie, I don't understand how you fixed it. Can you please explain again with more detail about what you actually did, and how?
Thanks