diff --git a/3rdparty/ffmpeg/.gitignore b/3rdparty/ffmpeg/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8daae67351
--- /dev/null
+++ b/3rdparty/ffmpeg/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+downloads/
+*.dll
+ffmpeg_version.cmake
diff --git a/3rdparty/ffmpeg/build_win32.txt b/3rdparty/ffmpeg/build_win32.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index e98b285208..0000000000
--- a/3rdparty/ffmpeg/build_win32.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-The build script is to be fixed.
-Right now it assumes that 32-bit MinGW is in the system path and
-64-bit mingw is installed to c:\Apps\MinGW64.
-
-It is important that gcc is used, not g++!
-Otherwise the produced DLL will likely be dependent on libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll or similar DLL.
-While we want to make the DLLs with minimum dependencies: Win32 libraries + msvcrt.dll.
-
-ffopencv.c is really a C++ source, hence -x c++ is used.
-
-How to update opencv_ffmpeg.dll and opencv_ffmpeg_64.dll when a new version of FFMPEG is release?
-
-1. Install 32-bit MinGW + MSYS from
-   http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Automated%20MinGW%20Installer/mingw-get-inst/
-   Let's assume, it's installed in C:\MSYS32.
-2. Install 64-bit MinGW. http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/
-   Let's assume, it's installed in C:\MSYS64
-3. Copy C:\MSYS32\msys to C:\MSYS64\msys. Edit C:\MSYS64\msys\etc\fstab, change C:\MSYS32 to C:\MSYS64.
-
-4. Now you have working MSYS32 and MSYS64 environments.
-   Launch, one by one, C:\MSYS32\msys\msys.bat and C:\MSYS64\msys\msys.bat to create your home directories.
-
-4. Download ffmpeg-x.y.z.tar.gz (where x.y.z denotes the actual ffmpeg version).
-   Copy it to C:\MSYS{32|64}\msys\home\<loginname> directory.
-
-5. To build 32-bit ffmpeg libraries, run C:\MSYS32\msys\msys.bat and type the following commands:
-
-   5.1. tar -xzf ffmpeg-x.y.z.tar.gz
-   5.2. mkdir build
-   5.3. cd build
-   5.4. ../ffmpeg-x.y.z/configure --enable-w32threads
-   5.5. make
-   5.6. make install
-   5.7. cd /local/lib
-   5.8. strip -g *.a
-
-6. Then repeat the same for 64-bit case. The output libs: libavcodec.a etc. need to be renamed to libavcodec64.a etc.
-
-7. Then, copy all those libs to <opencv>\3rdparty\lib\, copy the headers to <opencv>\3rdparty\include\ffmpeg_.
-
-8. Then, go to <opencv>\3rdparty\ffmpeg, edit make.bat
-   (change paths to the actual paths to your msys32 and msys64 distributions) and then run make.bat
diff --git a/3rdparty/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.cmake b/3rdparty/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..448ad2bb2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/3rdparty/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# Binary branch name: ffmpeg/master_20150703
+# Binaries were created for OpenCV: e379ea6ed60b0caad4d4e3eea096e9d850cb8c86
+set(FFMPEG_BINARIES_COMMIT "8aeefc4efe3215de89d8c7e114ae6f7a6091b8eb")
+set(FFMPEG_FILE_HASH_BIN32 "89c783eee1c47bfc733f08334ec2e31c")
+set(FFMPEG_FILE_HASH_BIN64 "35fe6ccdda6d7a04e9056b0d73b98e76")
+set(FFMPEG_FILE_HASH_CMAKE "8606f947a780071f8fcce8cbf39ceef5")
+
+set(FFMPEG_DOWNLOAD_URL ${OPENCV_FFMPEG_URL};$ENV{OPENCV_FFMPEG_URL};https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Itseez/opencv_3rdparty/${FFMPEG_BINARIES_COMMIT}/ffmpeg/)
+
+ocv_download(PACKAGE opencv_ffmpeg.dll
+             HASH ${FFMPEG_FILE_HASH_BIN32}
+             URL ${FFMPEG_DOWNLOAD_URL}
+             DESTINATION_DIR ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR})
+
+ocv_download(PACKAGE opencv_ffmpeg_64.dll
+             HASH ${FFMPEG_FILE_HASH_BIN64}
+             URL ${FFMPEG_DOWNLOAD_URL}
+             DESTINATION_DIR ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR})
+
+ocv_download(PACKAGE ffmpeg_version.cmake
+             HASH ${FFMPEG_FILE_HASH_CMAKE}
+             URL ${FFMPEG_DOWNLOAD_URL}
+             DESTINATION_DIR ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR})
+
+include(${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/ffmpeg_version.cmake)
diff --git a/3rdparty/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_version.cmake b/3rdparty/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_version.cmake
deleted file mode 100644
index 48fba2b913..0000000000
--- a/3rdparty/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_version.cmake
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-set(HAVE_FFMPEG 1)
-set(HAVE_FFMPEG_CODEC 1)
-set(HAVE_FFMPEG_FORMAT 1)
-set(HAVE_FFMPEG_UTIL 1)
-set(HAVE_FFMPEG_SWSCALE 1)
-set(HAVE_FFMPEG_RESAMPLE 0)
-set(HAVE_GENTOO_FFMPEG 1)
-
-set(ALIASOF_libavcodec_VERSION 55.18.102)
-set(ALIASOF_libavformat_VERSION 55.12.100)
-set(ALIASOF_libavutil_VERSION 52.38.100)
-set(ALIASOF_libswscale_VERSION 2.3.100)
-set(ALIASOF_libavresample_VERSION 1.0.1)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/3rdparty/ffmpeg/ffopencv.c b/3rdparty/ffmpeg/ffopencv.c
deleted file mode 100644
index b412e90071..0000000000
--- a/3rdparty/ffmpeg/ffopencv.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-#include "cap_ffmpeg_impl.hpp"
diff --git a/3rdparty/ffmpeg/make.bat b/3rdparty/ffmpeg/make.bat
deleted file mode 100644
index 318c2fee88..0000000000
--- a/3rdparty/ffmpeg/make.bat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-set path=c:\dev\msys32\bin;%path% & gcc -Wall -shared -o opencv_ffmpeg.dll -O2 -x c++ -I../include -I../include/ffmpeg_ -I../../modules/highgui/src ffopencv.c -L../lib -lavformat -lavcodec -lavdevice -lswscale -lavutil -lws2_32
-set path=c:\dev\msys64\bin;%path% & gcc -m64 -Wall -shared -o opencv_ffmpeg_64.dll -O2 -x c++ -I../include -I../include/ffmpeg_ -I../../modules/highgui/src ffopencv.c -L../lib -lavformat64 -lavcodec64 -lavdevice64 -lswscale64 -lavutil64 -lws2_32
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/3rdparty/ffmpeg/opencv_ffmpeg.dll b/3rdparty/ffmpeg/opencv_ffmpeg.dll
deleted file mode 100644
index b1e70df6a3..0000000000
Binary files a/3rdparty/ffmpeg/opencv_ffmpeg.dll and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/3rdparty/ffmpeg/opencv_ffmpeg_64.dll b/3rdparty/ffmpeg/opencv_ffmpeg_64.dll
deleted file mode 100644
index 37236e5424..0000000000
Binary files a/3rdparty/ffmpeg/opencv_ffmpeg_64.dll and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/3rdparty/ffmpeg/readme.txt b/3rdparty/ffmpeg/readme.txt
index 84faf7a83b..0a7833a1de 100644
--- a/3rdparty/ffmpeg/readme.txt
+++ b/3rdparty/ffmpeg/readme.txt
@@ -3,19 +3,19 @@
   he/she should use --enabled-shared configure flag and make sure that no GPL components are
   enabled (some notable examples are x264 (H264 encoder) and libac3 (Dolby AC3 audio codec)).
   See https://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html for details.
-  
+
   If you want to play very safe and do not want to use FFMPEG at all, regardless of whether it's installed on
   your system or not, configure and build OpenCV using CMake with WITH_FFMPEG=OFF flag. OpenCV will then use
   AVFoundation (OSX), GStreamer (Linux) or other available backends supported by opencv_videoio module.
-  
+
   There is also our self-contained motion jpeg codec, which you can use without any worries.
   It handles CV_FOURCC('M', 'J', 'P', 'G') streams within an AVI container (".avi").
-  
+
 * On Windows OpenCV uses pre-built ffmpeg binaries, built with proper flags (without GPL components) and
   wrapped with simple, stable OpenCV-compatible API.
   The binaries are opencv_ffmpeg.dll (version for 32-bit Windows) and
   opencv_ffmpeg_64.dll (version for 64-bit Windows).
-  
+
   See build_win32.txt for the build instructions, if you want to rebuild opencv_ffmpeg*.dll from scratch.
 
   The pre-built opencv_ffmpeg*.dll is:
@@ -24,9 +24,15 @@
     If it succeeds, ffmpeg can be used to decode/encode videos;
     otherwise, other API is used.
 
+  FFMPEG build contains H264 encoder based on the OpenH264 library, that should be installed separatelly.
+  OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems, Inc.
+  See https://github.com/cisco/openh264/releases for details and OpenH264 license.
+  Downloaded binary file can be placed into global system path (System32 or SysWOW64) or near application binaries.
+  You can also specify location of binary file via OPENH264_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.
+
   If LGPL/GPL software can not be supplied with your OpenCV-based product, simply exclude
   opencv_ffmpeg*.dll from your distribution; OpenCV will stay fully functional except for the ability to
   decode/encode videos using FFMPEG (though, it may still be able to do that using other API,
   such as Video for Windows, Windows Media Foundation or our self-contained motion jpeg codec).
-  
+
   See license.txt for the FFMPEG copyright notice and the licensing terms.
diff --git a/cmake/OpenCVFindLibsVideo.cmake b/cmake/OpenCVFindLibsVideo.cmake
index 279787a34d..94c735c693 100644
--- a/cmake/OpenCVFindLibsVideo.cmake
+++ b/cmake/OpenCVFindLibsVideo.cmake
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ endif(WITH_XIMEA)
 ocv_clear_vars(HAVE_FFMPEG HAVE_FFMPEG_CODEC HAVE_FFMPEG_FORMAT HAVE_FFMPEG_UTIL HAVE_FFMPEG_SWSCALE HAVE_FFMPEG_RESAMPLE HAVE_GENTOO_FFMPEG HAVE_FFMPEG_FFMPEG)
 if(WITH_FFMPEG)
   if(WIN32 AND NOT ARM)
-    include("${OpenCV_SOURCE_DIR}/3rdparty/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_version.cmake")
+    include("${OpenCV_SOURCE_DIR}/3rdparty/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.cmake")
   elseif(UNIX)
     CHECK_MODULE(libavcodec HAVE_FFMPEG_CODEC)
     CHECK_MODULE(libavformat HAVE_FFMPEG_FORMAT)
diff --git a/cmake/OpenCVUtils.cmake b/cmake/OpenCVUtils.cmake
index dee09dd9da..336762f9d7 100644
--- a/cmake/OpenCVUtils.cmake
+++ b/cmake/OpenCVUtils.cmake
@@ -836,3 +836,76 @@ macro(ocv_get_all_libs _modules _extra _3rdparty)
     ocv_list_reverse(${lst})
   endforeach()
 endmacro()
+
+function(ocv_download)
+  cmake_parse_arguments(DL "" "PACKAGE;HASH;URL;DESTINATION_DIR;DOWNLOAD_DIR" "" ${ARGN})
+  if(NOT DL_DOWNLOAD_DIR)
+    set(DL_DOWNLOAD_DIR "${DL_DESTINATION_DIR}/downloads")
+  endif()
+  if(DEFINED DL_DESTINATION_DIR)
+    set(DESTINATION_TARGET "${DL_DESTINATION_DIR}/${DL_PACKAGE}")
+    if(EXISTS "${DESTINATION_TARGET}")
+      file(MD5 "${DESTINATION_TARGET}" target_md5)
+      if(NOT target_md5 STREQUAL DL_HASH)
+        file(REMOVE "${DESTINATION_TARGET}")
+      else()
+        set(DOWNLOAD_PACKAGE_LOCATION "" PARENT_SCOPE)
+        unset(DOWNLOAD_PACKAGE_LOCATION)
+        return()
+      endif()
+    endif()
+  endif()
+  set(DOWNLOAD_TARGET "${DL_DOWNLOAD_DIR}/${DL_HASH}/${DL_PACKAGE}")
+  get_filename_component(DOWNLOAD_TARGET_DIR "${DOWNLOAD_TARGET}" PATH)
+  if(EXISTS "${DOWNLOAD_TARGET}")
+    file(MD5 "${DOWNLOAD_TARGET}" target_md5)
+    if(NOT target_md5 STREQUAL DL_HASH)
+      message(WARNING "Download: Local copy of ${DL_PACKAGE} has invalid MD5 hash: ${target_md5} (expected: ${DL_HASH})")
+      file(REMOVE "${DOWNLOAD_TARGET}")
+      file(REMOVE_RECURSE "${DOWNLOAD_TARGET_DIR}")
+    endif()
+  endif()
+
+  if(NOT EXISTS "${DOWNLOAD_TARGET}")
+    set(__url "")
+    foreach(__url_i ${DL_URL})
+      if(NOT ("${__url_i}" STREQUAL ""))
+        set(__url "${__url_i}")
+        break()
+      endif()
+    endforeach()
+    if("${__url}" STREQUAL "")
+      message(FATAL_ERROR "Download URL is not specified for package ${DL_PACKAGE}")
+    endif()
+
+    if(NOT EXISTS "${DOWNLOAD_TARGET_DIR}")
+      file(MAKE_DIRECTORY ${DOWNLOAD_TARGET_DIR})
+    endif()
+    message(STATUS "Downloading ${DL_PACKAGE}...")
+    #message(STATUS "    ${__url}${DL_PACKAGE}")
+    file(DOWNLOAD "${__url}${DL_PACKAGE}" "${DOWNLOAD_TARGET}"
+         TIMEOUT 600 STATUS __status
+         EXPECTED_MD5 ${DL_HASH})
+    if(NOT __status EQUAL 0)
+      message(FATAL_ERROR "Failed to download ${DL_PACKAGE}. Status=${__status}")
+    else()
+      # Don't remove this code, because EXPECTED_MD5 parameter doesn't fail "file(DOWNLOAD)" step on wrong hash
+      file(MD5 "${DOWNLOAD_TARGET}" target_md5)
+      if(NOT target_md5 STREQUAL DL_HASH)
+        message(FATAL_ERROR "Downloaded copy of ${DL_PACKAGE} has invalid MD5 hash: ${target_md5} (expected: ${DL_HASH})")
+      endif()
+    endif()
+    message(STATUS "Downloading ${DL_PACKAGE}... Done")
+  endif()
+
+  if(DEFINED DL_DESTINATION_DIR)
+    execute_process(COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_if_different "${DOWNLOAD_TARGET}" "${DL_DESTINATION_DIR}/"
+                    RESULT_VARIABLE __result)
+
+    if(NOT __result EQUAL 0)
+      message(FATAL_ERROR "Downloader: Failed to copy package from ${DOWNLOAD_TARGET} to ${DL_DESTINATION_DIR} with error ${__result}")
+    endif()
+  endif()
+
+  set(DOWNLOAD_PACKAGE_LOCATION ${DOWNLOAD_TARGET} PARENT_SCOPE)
+endfunction()