> Can anyone help me understand whether VDPAU is even supported on my
> hardware/kernel/driver combination, and if so, what I need to do to get
it
> to work?
I don't know about that, but I do know that on F24 the nouveau
driver would freeze up solid as a rock once every few days
with my 750 Ti card, so I gave up and installed the nvidia
binary drivers from rpmfusion, which have not frozen up once.
I used the NVidia drivers for a few months, but upon every reboot I'd get
the "oh no! something has gone wrong" message:
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/69051/why-do-i-get-the-oh-no-so...
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipO54mV5FUh95O906IObqPZax_RhlM-sRV2NH...
Rebooting into single user and re-doing the install process for the video
drivers would work, but it was a real pain to do that every time (the power
in our neighborhood is ... finicky, so reboots are sadly a frequent-ish
occurrence).
I finally got tired of doing that on every reboot and decided to switch
over to Nouveau, but if Nouveau can't do things like hardware acceleration
on a two year-old card then I might have to switch back to the NVidia
drivers.
-jdm