| Stored Media | Live Media | Real-time Media | |
| Transmission | Transmission | Transmission | |
| Example(s): | Video on Demand | Internet TV, | Video-conferencing, |
| Internet Radio | IP telephony | ||
| Data-flow control: | Pause, rewind, | None | None |
| fast-forward | |||
| and indexing | |||
| Pre-fetching: | Yes, | No way | No way |
| if extra band-width | |||
| is available | |||
| Buffering: | As large as possible | Jitter hiding | < 500 ms |
| (few seconds) | |||
| Internet transport | UDP/TCP | UDP | UDP |
| protocol(s): |