Here is a small code snippet for OpenCV which reads an image sequence backwards. It needs a sequence of images 000.png, 001.png, 002.png, … in the project’s folder.

cv::Mat frame;
cv::VideoCapture capture("000.png");
capture.set(CV_CAP_PROP_POS_AVI_RATIO, 1);
while (true)
{
	capture >> frame;
	capture.set(CV_CAP_PROP_POS_FRAMES, capture.get(CV_CAP_PROP_POS_FRAMES) - 2);

	cv::imshow("image", frame);
	cv::waitKey(30);
}

So what does the code do?

1. Setting the property CV_CAP_PROP_POS_AVI_RATIO to 1 means starting at the end of the sequence (0 = at the beginning).
2. The property CV_CAP_PROP_POS_FRAMES defines the index of the next image to load. Since it is automatically increased after each image retrieval, we have to decrement it by the value of 2.