The invention discloses a historical video real-time linear tracking method, which relates to the field of video image processing, and comprises the following steps of: 1, carrying out initializing and loading a library; step 2, carrying out linear tracking processing on historical videos; 3, releasing resources and unloading a library; step 4, ending. In the step 2, human factors are introduced,single-frame rapid playing is carried out on the video according to needs, target object extraction is carried out, a corresponding mark is marked at the position where the target appears, and when the target turns or suddenly changes, tracking is carried out through moving the target mark at the turning point again. Through the implementation of the invention, the precision of the target trackingalgorithm in a complex scene is improved, the problem of target tracking errors or target tracking missing in a complex picture can be solved, the method is not influenced by error timestamp information, and the method is simple and easy to popularize and apply.