diff --git a/multimedia/py-av/Makefile b/multimedia/py-av/Makefile
index 1072b20b6f54..b37e14ed82eb 100644
--- a/multimedia/py-av/Makefile
+++ b/multimedia/py-av/Makefile
@@ -1,27 +1,24 @@
 PORTNAME=	av
-DISTVERSION=	14.0.1
-PORTREVISION=	2
+DISTVERSION=	16.1.0
 CATEGORIES=	multimedia python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	bofh@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Pythonic binding for FFmpeg
 WWW=		https://docs.mikeboers.com/pyav/develop/
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.txt
 
-BROKEN=		Does not build with ffmpeg > 6
-
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libavutil.so:multimedia/ffmpeg
 
 USES=		python pkgconfig
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent cython distutils
 
 CFLAGS+=	-Wno-error=incompatible-function-pointer-types
 
 post-install:
 	${FIND} ${STAGEDIR}${PYTHON_SITELIBDIR}/av/ -name '*.so' | ${XARGS} ${STRIP_CMD}
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/multimedia/py-av/distinfo b/multimedia/py-av/distinfo
index 0f453f1e5626..b1536d22d955 100644
--- a/multimedia/py-av/distinfo
+++ b/multimedia/py-av/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1734690553
-SHA256 (av-14.0.1.tar.gz) = 2b0a17301af469ddaea46b5c1c982df1b7b5de8bc6c94cdc98cad4a67178c82a
-SIZE (av-14.0.1.tar.gz) = 3918806
+TIMESTAMP = 1772672547
+SHA256 (av-16.1.0.tar.gz) = a094b4fd87a3721dacf02794d3d2c82b8d712c85b9534437e82a8a978c175ffd
+SIZE (av-16.1.0.tar.gz) = 4285203
diff --git a/multimedia/py-av/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/multimedia/py-av/files/patch-pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1bbab80b42cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/multimedia/py-av/files/patch-pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- pyproject.toml.orig	2026-03-05 01:46:20 UTC
++++ pyproject.toml
+@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ readme = "README.md"
+ name = "av"
+ description = "Pythonic bindings for FFmpeg's libraries."
+ readme = "README.md"
+-license = "BSD-3-Clause"
++license = {text="BSD-3-Clause"}
+ authors = [
+     {name = "WyattBlue", email = "wyattblue@auto-editor.com"},
+     {name = "Jeremy Lainé", email = "jeremy.laine@m4x.org"},