diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 735d8e08dc..2dbbc6bb25 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ OCV_OPTION(WITH_CUBLAS "Include NVidia Cuda Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BL
 OCV_OPTION(WITH_CUDNN "Include NVIDIA CUDA Deep Neural Network (cuDNN) library support" WITH_CUDA
   VISIBLE_IF WITH_CUDA
   VERIFY HAVE_CUDNN)
-OCV_OPTION(WITH_NVCUVID "Include NVidia Video Decoding library support" WITH_CUDA
+OCV_OPTION(WITH_NVCUVID "Include NVidia Video Decoding library support" OFF  # disabled, details: https://github.com/opencv/opencv/issues/14850
   VISIBLE_IF WITH_CUDA
   VERIFY HAVE_NVCUVID)
 OCV_OPTION(WITH_EIGEN "Include Eigen2/Eigen3 support" (NOT CV_DISABLE_OPTIMIZATION AND NOT CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING)