v2.2.6 crashes when playing media on x64 Windows 10
Tried playing an mp4, wav & an mp3 all with the same result: VLC immediately crashes. When restarted, it asks to upload a crash report, but fails to contact the ftp server (probably unrelated).
This is on Win 10 Pro x64 Build 14393 Intel 64, Family 6 Model 45 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel ~1800 MHz w/16GB RAM, 9,138 MB available. The media is all on local (C:) disk w/plenty of free space. Media plays fine with Winamp, default W10 players (e.g. nothing wrong with the media files themselves).
VLC was un-installed, redownloaded (from videolan.org), and re-installed, to the same result. Nothing pops into the event log when I attempt to play media and fail.