Overview
Player Classic is the original Player software written specifically for the Windows operating system. It no longer receives new Composer or Share & Deploy features but will continue to receive bug fixes for the foreseeable future. (An end-of-life announcement will be sent to all users months in advance.)
Users are free to install and use Player Classic, as long as it is done with the knowledge of its limited life span and locked feature set.
See our FAQ for information about the introduction of new Player technology on Windows and its coexistence with Player Classic.
Installing Player Classic
The installer for Player Classic can be found on our Installers page.
Using Composer’s Play Mode
Composer has two Play Modes – one for the modern Player technology used on all supported operating systems ("Simulate Player") and a second specific to Player Classic on Windows ("Simulate Player Classic (Windows-only)".
If you will be deploying experiences to Player Classic on Windows PCs in the field, be sure to select the Player Classic option when testing an experience using Composer's Play Mode.
Features unique to Player Classic
Although failing to match the scalability of our modern Player’s technology, Player Classic does retain a superset of features not yet available in Player.
NOTE: These unsupported features may be added to Player in the future. The list below will be updated over time.
The following list contains features fully unsupported by Player. An additional subset of properties, triggers, and actions for supported features are also currently unavailable. This subset is not listed here but is indicated with a "Player Classic" label in Composer. For example:
Expressive features
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Web Browser Asset's support for websites rejecting Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
(listed here because many websites reject CORS) - Drawing tools
- Transparent background
Triggers and Actions
- Launch application
- Remote actions (use Web Triggers instead)
- Local network triggers
Interface Assets
- Any out-of-the-box Interface Assets written using JavaScript
- Face Detection with OpenVINO
- Google Geocoding
- Linear Converter
- Philips hue
- Phidgets RFID
- Share via Email – Configurable
- Share via Filesystem
- Share via USB
- Shopping List
- Speech Recognition
- Text to Speech
- Scheduler
- Any custom Interface Assets written using JavaScript (use TypeScript)
Design Accelerators
Licensing
Other
Limitations
- Direct 3D VLC window might appear on top of the experience if running on Windows11 patch 24h2 when using VLC for the Video style.
- Transparent video might loose transparency when rendered on Windows11 patch 24h2
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