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.