What to look for
It is important for a content provided to pick the streaming or pseudo-streaming product
that suites him best. The factors that influence the decision are:
- the client population - how many people on the Internet have clients or are willing to have
them, so that they can view the served media. Clients need to be free.
- is the proposed system the one user (provider) really needs
- quality of the media and it's transportation - different real world situations
- quality of the media creation tools
- the server system price - is the media worth the price of the system
- server performance - number of streams that server can serve, processor power required...
- the ease of configuration and running the server and creating the media
This criteria filtered the long list of products and product-attempts.
Although not chronological, the overview lines up the streaming and pseudo-streaming
products according to the methods used.