Transcoder puking randomly?

Server Version#: 1.13.7.5369
Player Version#: Roku and others

This started recently and has been ramping up to be more and more frequent. The server will trancode things normally for a period of time, and then playback will quit with a generic “Video not available” message or it will just act like the video ended.

Server is the plexinc/pms-docker:plexpass docker image on Ubuntu 16.04. The /transcode directory in the container is pointing at a nearly empty 480GB SSD. Right around when playback errors occur, I get the following in Plex Media Server.log:

Sep 09, 2018 13:57:21.832 [0x7ff7067ff700] ERROR - Transcoder: Failed to delete session directory (boost::filesystem::remove: No such file or directory: "/transcode/Transcode/Sessions/plex-transcode-903728f61b0fe33c5a4a046e850145b2-5c0e6c56-dc54-4775-8ecc-010a88bf9c5f/chunk-00056")
Sep 09, 2018 13:57:36.112 [0x7ff75abfe700] WARN - Got a request to stop a transcode session without a session GUID (or with an invalid one).
Sep 09, 2018 13:57:38.388 [0x7ff7563ff700] ERROR - Throttle: timed out trying to read chunk 5
Sep 09, 2018 13:57:42.842 [0x7ff75abfe700] ERROR - [Transcoder] Parse error, at least 3 arguments were expected, only 1 given in string '�FFFFED�FFFFC4�FFFFC3�FFFF90�FFFFCB
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It seems like clearing out the Codecs folder has resolved this for some reason? No idea why but no issues yet since doing do.

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