After IBM® Personal Presenter is started, a URL is displayed that can be copied and sent to clients who wish to connect. A client pastes the URL into the browser address window in order to run a Java applet player that will connect to IBM Personal Presenter automatically and start decoding and displaying the video, audio, and still images.

The Java applet that constitutes the client is called IBM Personal Viewer and is hosted on this page on alphaWorks®. IBM Personal Viewer can receive standard RTP/RTSP live and video-on-demand (VOD) streams and can play local MPEG-4 files.