[EricV]

I've got it running on Debian Jessie with E-350 using first post instruction. I only didn't tested init scripts etc (bcs I've my own implementation which use remote).
There are two quirks to overcome
1. Key thing to make it working is to use libegl1-mesa from experimental tree of Debian (add repo & apt-get -t install libegl1-mesa).
2. Also libGLEW is named differently in Debian.
• You need to install libglew1.10
• Symlink libGLEW.so.1.8 -> libGLEW.so.1.10 (ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLEW.so.1.10 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLEW.so.1.8)
• Install dummy libglew1.8 - https://mega.co.nz/#!UJoGADzY!cWmU2nH9EI...7v_5zphYCE

Easiest way to verify whatever vdpau is working is to press "O" in player - you should see "dc:ff-h264-vdpau".
If you have something like "VDPAU: required extension GL_NV_vdpau_interop not found" in log it means that MESA is too old (older than 10.0).

Note that I posted instructions for debian.