As reported in https://github.com/i-rinat/libvdpau-va-gl/issues/64 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1392164 , this Apple trailer for Arrival (http://trailers.apple.com/movies/paramount/arrival/arrival-final-trailer_h1080p.mov) causes mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau, (or mpv --vo=vdpau --hwdec=vdpau) to freeze my entire machine with libvdpau-va-gl 0.4.0 or newer installed. Downgrading to 0.3.6 "fixes" the issue. Also, playing the same video via VA-API directly (for example, using mpv --vo=vaapi --hwdec=vaapi) works just fine even with 0.4.2.

$ rpm -q fedora-release mplayer mpv kernel libvdpau-va-gl libva libva-intel-driver
fedora-release-24-2.noarch
mplayer-1.3.0-1.fc24.x86_64
mpv-0.21.0-1.fc24.x86_64
kernel-4.8.6-201.fc24.x86_64
libvdpau-va-gl-0.4.2-1.fc24.x86_64
libva-1.7.2-1.fc24.x86_64
libva-intel-driver-1.7.2-1.fc24.x86_64

$ lspci -tvvnn
-[0000:00]-+-00.0  Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT DRAM Controller [8086:0a04]
           +-02.0  Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0a16]
           +-03.0  Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller [8086:0a0c]
           +-14.0  Intel Corporation 8 Series USB xHCI HC [8086:9c31]
           +-16.0  Intel Corporation 8 Series HECI #0 [8086:9c3a]
           +-1b.0  Intel Corporation 8 Series HD Audio Controller [8086:9c20]
           +-1c.0-[01]----00.0  Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 [8086:08b1]
           +-1c.3-[02]----00.0  Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5209 PCI Express Card Reader [10ec:5209]
           +-1c.4-[03]----00.0  Samsung Electronics Co Ltd XP941 PCIe SSD [144d:a800]
           +-1d.0  Intel Corporation 8 Series USB EHCI #1 [8086:9c26]
           +-1f.0  Intel Corporation 8 Series LPC Controller [8086:9c43]
           \-1f.3  Intel Corporation 8 Series SMBus Controller [8086:9c22]

Here's the kernel log:
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel: IP: [<ffffffffc02b543d>] gen6_ppgtt_insert_entries+0x14d/0x1d0 [i915]
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel: PGD 0 
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel: Modules linked in: hid_logitech_hidpp uas snd_usb_audio hid_plantronics hid_logitech_dj usb_storage snd_usbmidi
_lib snd_rawmidi gspca_ov534 gspca_main v4l2_common ax88179_178a usbnet mii ip6t_rpfilter ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 xt_conntrack ebtable_broute ebtable_nat 
ip6table_nat nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_nat_ipv6 ip6table_raw ip6table_mangle ip6table_security iptable_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_nat_
ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack iptable_raw iptable_mangle iptable_security ebtable_filter ebtables ip6table_filter ip6_tables ccm bnep fuse bluetooth ip_set nfnetl
ink bridge stp llc arc4 intel_rapl x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp coretemp kvm_intel kvm pn544_mei mei_phy pn544 hci iwlmvm vfat nfc fat irqbypass iTC
O_wdt mac80211 iTCO_vendor_support intel_cstate intel_uncore
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel:  uvcvideo snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_codec_hdmi intel_rapl_perf snd_hda_codec_generic snd_hda_intel iwlwifi videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops snd_hda_codec videobuf2_v4l2 videobuf2_core snd_hda_core snd_hwdep snd_seq videodev snd_seq_device i2c_i801 media rtsx_pci_ms i2c_smbus cfg80211 memstick lpc_ich joydev mei_me snd_pcm sony_laptop snd_timer acpi_als mei kfifo_buf shpchp industrialio rfkill snd soundcore tpm_tis tpm_tis_core tpm nfsd auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd grace sunrpc dm_crypt mmc_block i915 rtsx_pci_sdmmc mmc_core crct10dif_pclmul i2c_algo_bit crc32_pclmul drm_kms_helper crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel drm serio_raw rtsx_pci fjes video hid_multitouch [last unloaded: ip6_tables]
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel: CPU: 3 PID: 15785 Comm: mplayer Not tainted 4.8.6-201.fc24.x86_64 #1
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel: Hardware name: Sony Corporation SVP1322C5E/VAIO, BIOS R2091V7 03/24/2014
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel: task: ffff90a4b48fbd00 task.stack: ffff90a3c99bc000
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel: RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffc02b543d>]  [<ffffffffc02b543d>] gen6_ppgtt_insert_entries+0x14d/0x1d0 [i915]
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel: RSP: 0018:ffff90a3c99bf9d8  EFLAGS: 00010246
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel: RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff90a4d494a000
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel: RDX: ffff90a4b49ecc60 RSI: ffff90a4d13cd000 RDI: 000000009b19c000
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel: RBP: ffff90a3c99bfa28 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff90a4d494a000
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel: R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff90a4d1390000 R12: ffff90a4d13cdffc
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel: R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff90a4b49ecc60 R15: 0000000000000000
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel: FS:  00007f8859ecb980(0000) GS:ffff90a4dfb80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel: CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel: CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000001f3a60000 CR4: 00000000001406e0
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel: Stack:
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel:  ffff90a4b48fbd00 0000000000000200 ffff90a4d494a000 0000100000000001
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel:  000000009b19c000 0000000000000000 ffff90a4d206f400 0000000000000002
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel:  0000000000000001 ffff90a431e30240 ffff90a3c99bfa60 ffffffffc02b6d10
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel: Call Trace:
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffffc02b6d10>] aliasing_gtt_bind_vma+0x90/0xe0 [i915]
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffffc02bbd3e>] i915_vma_bind+0xce/0x180 [i915]
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffffc02c23ab>] i915_gem_object_do_pin+0x86b/0xa60 [i915]
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffffc02c25cd>] i915_gem_object_pin+0x2d/0x30 [i915]
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffffc02b097f>] i915_gem_execbuffer_reserve_vma.isra.20+0x9f/0x180 [i915]
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffffc02b0deb>] i915_gem_execbuffer_reserve.isra.21+0x38b/0x3b0 [i915]
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffffc02b2088>] i915_gem_do_execbuffer.isra.24+0x6b8/0x1200 [i915]
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffff9b1da284>] ? shmem_getpage_gfp+0x6b4/0xc90
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffffc02b37f4>] i915_gem_execbuffer2+0x104/0x260 [i915]
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffffc01aefa0>] drm_ioctl+0x200/0x4f0 [drm]
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffffc02b36f0>] ? i915_gem_execbuffer+0x330/0x330 [i915]
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffff9b264dd3>] do_vfs_ioctl+0xa3/0x5f0
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffff9b265399>] SyS_ioctl+0x79/0x90
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffff9b802572>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa4
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel: Code: 5f 5d c3 c7 45 cc 00 00 00 00 31 db 48 c7 45 d0 00 00 00 00 45 31 f6 e9 2a ff ff ff 8b 45 b8 48 8b 4d c0 48 8b 84 c1 c8 01 00 00 <4c> 8b 38 48 8b 45 b0 83 80 00 1a 00 00 01 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 
Nov 15 11:21:00 localhost kernel: RIP  [<ffffffffc02b543d>] gen6_ppgtt_insert_entries+0x14d/0x1d0 [i915]