Frustration w/ Fedora 20, Totem, nVidia

[Alice Wonder]

Things were working fine in Fedora 18 but that went end of life.

With Fedora 20, initially totem worked including fluendo plugins, audio
and video. However gnome-shell kept crashing, and browser (gstreamer
backend - midori) would crash on h.264 video.

Tired of several gnome-shell crashes a day, I installed the nvidia
drivers per http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia

browser stopped crashed and played videos fine but totem stopped
working, no useful error message - not even starting it from CLI - just
spin and crash. But other gstreamer applications worked and video worked
just fine in browser.

I just un-installed the nvidia drivers to see if gnome is more stable
now w/ the Nouveau drivers. Totem works again, but no audio. Audio works
in other GStreamer apps, just not totem.

Tried with mp3 and with opus as well as with videos.

I suspect I am going to have to re-install the nvidia drivers, every
time I go without to see if Nouveau work they don't. Totem worked with
nvidia drivers in F18, it is since F20 that I it doesn't.

A) Anyone know how I can get useful information out of totem to figure
out why it is failing with the nvidia drivers? (304xx drivers)

B) A bit off-topic - Anyone know of a video card with two DVI output
that actually works well with open source drivers? I'm tired of having
either a buggy desktop or a tainted kernel where distros ignore my
issues because I have to use closed-source drivers.

Thank you