Backtrack

Backtrack

A hotkey-summoned overlay HUD for OBS - record, save your replay buffer, and browse your clips without alt-tabbing out of your game.

Backtrack talks to OBS entirely over **obs-websocket**, so it never touches your scene collection or settings directly. It's a companion, not a plugin - it sits on top of whatever OBS setup you already have (including a global replay buffer, or per-source buffers via [obs-source-record](https://github.com/ilyambr/obs-source-record) and [obs-replay-slider](https://github.com/ilyambr/obs-replay-slider), if you're running those too).

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Screenshots

Idle	Gallery	Player	Settings

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1. Prerequisites

• Windows 10/11 - Backtrack is a WPF app, Windows-only for now (see VERSIONING.md for the plan if that ever changes).
• OBS Studio with its built-in obs-websocket server turned on (Tools > WebSocket Server Settings).

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2. Installation

Download the latest installer from [Releases](https://github.com/ilyambr/backtrack/releases) and run it. Backtrack checks for updates once, at startup, and can install one right then if it finds one - that's the only unattended check/install; every other update check (the Settings "Check now" button, or the deferred install prompt) is a manual click.

To build from source instead:

dotnet build -c Release

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`MainWindow.xaml.cs` is not as big as it looks

That file has a lot of lines, but a large share of it is AI-written explanatory comments (see the AI disclosure below), not logic - don't judge its size at face value.

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3. What Backtrack installs on your system

Backtrack talks to OBS, closes it, and can install other software - that's worth sta