Separate playlist advantage is that apart of the media item title it may show short media description. Separate playlist width is always 100% of parent container and 250 pixels high. The height can be easily modified to any other value. Separate playlist and optionally playlist height you can set through Nuevo plugin options.
player.nuevo({ playlistID: "container_id", playlistMaxH: 350 });
{sources: [{src: "//www.domain.com/media/playlist.m3u8",type: "application/x-mpegURL"}],title: 'video item title',description: "video item description",thumb: 'http://domain.com/video_thumb.jpg',duration: '03:40'}