Description of problem:
When playing a WMV video in parole (gstreamer based) under 4.8 kernel, the screen locks-up after ~5 seconds with

lis 03 12:31:21 eagle.danny.cz kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: write fault at 0003680000 engine 1b [CE2] client 18 [GR_CE] reason 02 [PTE] on channel 2 [003fbf1000 Xorg[1539]]
lis 03 12:31:21 eagle.danny.cz kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: ce2 engine fault on channel 2, recovering...

in journal. Killing the Xorg process restarts the video card(?). Using 4.7 kernel allows to play the video.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-4.8.4-200.fc24.x86_64
kernel-4.8.6-200.fc24.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.12-4.fc24.x86_64

01:00.0 0300: 10de:1287 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: 10b0:1287
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 32
	Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
	Memory at f8000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
	I/O ports at ac00 [size=128]
	Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: nouveau
	Kernel modules: nouveau

Video specs from ffmpeg:

[wmv3 @ 0x731600] Extra data: 8 bits left, value: 20
Guessed Channel Layout for  Input Stream #0.0 : stereo
Input #0, asf, from 'video.wmv':
  Metadata:
    artist          : foo
    copyright       : bar
    WMFSDKNeeded    : 0.0.0.0000
    DeviceConformanceTemplate: MP@ML
    WMFSDKVersion   : 12.0.10011.16384
    IsVBR           : 0
  Duration: 00:02:16.81, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1911 kb/s
    Stream #0:0(ger): Audio: wmav2 (a[1][0][0] / 0x0161), 44100 Hz, 2 channels, fltp, 48 kb/s
    Stream #0:1(ger): Video: wmv3 (Main) (WMV3 / 0x33564D57), yuv420p, 720x576, 1900 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc


How reproducible:
100%