Comskip Process Failing

Comskip isn’t working for me for my DVR recordings. Commercials aren’t removed, but a 0kb *-comskipped file is left each file’s directory.
Below are what appear to be some relevant log lines.

Any advice?

Server Version#: 1.18.7.2457

Mar 08, 2020 21:00:00.763 [18876] DEBUG - Job running: EAE_ROOT=’\?\C:\Users[username redacted]\AppData\Local\Plex Media Server\Cache\Transcode\Sessions\EasyAudioEncoder’ FFMPEG_EXTERNAL_LIBS=’\\?\C:\Users\[username redacted]\AppData\Local\Plex\ Media\ Server\Codecs\0bc617e-2965-windows-x86\’ C:\Program Files (x86)\Plex\Plex Media Server\Plex Commercial Skipper.exe “–ini=C:\Program Files (x86)\Plex\Plex Media Server\Resources\comskip.ini” --output=E:\Media\Video\Television.grab\445c5079dd48bcd6f79f444dceeacca6ff234aa4-7de5453d2910d9fc256e2a149d596c1ea1b13662 -t --quiet “E:\Media\Video\Television.grab\445c5079dd48bcd6f79f444dceeacca6ff234aa4-7de5453d2910d9fc256e2a149d596c1ea1b13662\Batwoman (2019) - S01E14 - Grinning From Ear to Ear.ts”
Mar 08, 2020 21:00:00.784 [18876] DEBUG - Jobs: Starting child process with pid 2768
[Removed a bunch of apparently unrelated lines here]
Mar 08, 2020 21:02:32.143 [5224] DEBUG - Jobs: ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Plex\Plex Media Server\Plex Commercial Skipper.exe’ exit code for process 2768 is -1073741819 ()
Mar 08, 2020 21:02:32.143 [18876] DEBUG - Recorder: EDL built after 151.4 seconds.
Mar 08, 2020 21:02:32.151 [18876] DEBUG - Job running: EAE_ROOT=’\?\C:\Users[username redacted]\AppData\Local\Plex Media Server\Cache\Transcode\Sessions\EasyAudioEncoder’ FFMPEG_EXTERNAL_LIBS=’\\?\C:\Users\[username redacted]\AppData\Local\Plex\ Media\ Server\Codecs\0bc617e-2965-windows-x86\’ X_PLEX_TOKEN=‘xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx’ C:\Program Files (x86)\Plex\Plex Media Server\Plex Transcoder.exe -y -safe 0 -skip_before_video_key 1 -skip_before_inpoint 1 -offset_inout 1 -i E:\Media\Video\Television.grab\445c5079dd48bcd6f79f444dceeacca6ff234aa4-7de5453d2910d9fc256e2a149d596c1ea1b13662\segment-list.txt -map 0 -c copy -loglevel quiet -loglevel_plex error “E:\Media\Video\Television.grab\445c5079dd48bcd6f79f444dceeacca6ff234aa4-7de5453d2910d9fc256e2a149d596c1ea1b13662\Batwoman (2019) - S01E14 - Grinning From Ear to Ear-comskipped.ts”
Mar 08, 2020 21:02:32.153 [18876] DEBUG - Jobs: Starting child process with pid 7464
Mar 08, 2020 21:02:32.213 [18664] DEBUG - Auth: Refreshing tokens inside the token-based authentication filter.
Mar 08, 2020 21:02:32.213 [18444] ERROR - [Transcoder] [mpegts @ 02c83140] sample rate not set
Mar 08, 2020 21:02:32.213 [18664] DEBUG - HTTP requesting GET https://plex.tv/api/v2/server/access_tokens?auth_token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&includeProfiles=1&includeProviders=1
Mar 08, 2020 21:02:32.213 [18444] ERROR - [Transcoder] Could not write header for output file #0 (incorrect codec parameters ?): Invalid argument
Mar 08, 2020 21:02:32.213 [18444] ERROR - [Transcoder]
Mar 08, 2020 21:02:32.218 [5224] DEBUG - Jobs: ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Plex\Plex Media Server\Plex Transcoder.exe’ exit code for process 7464 is 1 (failure)

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Plex Media Server 1.20.1.3213 has now been released as beta

See release notice Plex Media Server

  • (DVR) Fixed an issue where Plex Commercial Skipper would unexpectedly exit with an error code (#11259) (#11151)