VideoWriter_GPU is broken since NVIDIA driver 344.11

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Transferred from http://code.opencv.org/issues/3955

|| Sergey Ravdin on 2014-10-14 08:50
|| Priority: Normal
|| Affected: 2.4.9 (latest release)
|| Category: gpu (cuda)
|| Tracker: Bug
|| Difficulty: 
|| PR: 
|| Platform: x64 / Windows

VideoWriter_GPU is broken since NVIDIA driver 344.11

New drivers from NVIDIA for Windows completely dropped support for NVCUVENC for NVENC. This means that current implementation of VideoWriter_GPU is useless and produces access violation errors in NVCreateHWEncoder() in video_writer.cpp in VideoWriter_GPU constructor.
Earlier versions of driver lacked nvcuvenc.dll, but VideoWriter_GPU still worked if that dll is placed into system. Now it doesn't.

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[rdockterjr]

This issue is still around. Has any progress been made?

I noticed this merge: #6036

But the NVCUVID API is only for video decoding. In order for the GPU VideoWriter to be fixed the NVENC API will need to be incorporated.

[arvanus]

Is it fixed? Because I'm still using Cuda 6.0 because of this issue, for cuda::videoWriter
*and it affects 3.1.0 too