Re: VLC problems in fc25 too

I've made several posts about vlc failing in f24 and f25 with an old video card and the nvidia-304 drivers. It seemed time to move on. I now have a GT 710 fanless card from msi, which is marketed as an upgrade for older MB video hardware; it isn't a gamers' card, but it runs the current nvidia driver from rpmfusion. It is working well for me in mythtv, driving both a basic vga monitor and my HD tv (a+v) via hdmi, although at present DLNA moving-picture quality is still rather better. But I don't appear to have access to my old MB audio hardware, and neither vlc nor smplayer have yet played with audio. I've found a 'PulseAudio/Examples' page https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples which looks as if it might eventually lead to an answer, but any hints from closer to home would be welcome. John P