that’s the structure of a bluray disk. It includes all that the player needs to play it (e.g. menus, chapters, etc). The STREAM folder contains the actual video, probably in a .m2ts file (you can convert it to mkv using ffmpeg or similar tools)

I enjoyed reading this a lot. thanks for sharing

h264 and H265 (not 10bit) is so well supported that it is hardly an issue.

A lot of it is just difference in vision. FOSS projects often have an owner and they might not be open to switch the direction of their project or be willing to maintain a large feature that someone wants to contribute.

there is also the “I rewrote it using Rust/Go/whatever because that makes it better” people.

should be S tier also, then.

I run it headless in a small pc in my basement that I use as server. it also has an http api so other systems can integrate with it (eg another program that looks for torrents and pushes the torrents into it.

Transmission can run as a daemon, that alones makes it S tier.

I also was not aware that people would pay strangers to use their plex servers. Im not surprised plex is going after them. They are threading a very fine line already.