diff --git a/multimedia/py-av/Makefile b/multimedia/py-av/Makefile
index b37e14ed82eb..0bae1d719070 100644
--- a/multimedia/py-av/Makefile
+++ b/multimedia/py-av/Makefile
@@ -1,24 +1,28 @@
 PORTNAME=	av
-DISTVERSION=	16.1.0
+DISTVERSION=	17.0.0
 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
 
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libavutil.so:multimedia/ffmpeg
 
 USES=		python pkgconfig
-USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent cython distutils
+USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent cython pep517
 
-CFLAGS+=	-Wno-error=incompatible-function-pointer-types
+post-patch:
+	@${REINPLACE_CMD} '/license-files/d; s|^license = "BSD-3-Clause"|license = { text = "BSD-3-Clause" }|; s|77|63|g' \
+		${WRKSRC}/pyproject.toml
 
 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 b1536d22d955..7f25cb53de4c 100644
--- a/multimedia/py-av/distinfo
+++ b/multimedia/py-av/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1772672547
-SHA256 (av-16.1.0.tar.gz) = a094b4fd87a3721dacf02794d3d2c82b8d712c85b9534437e82a8a978c175ffd
-SIZE (av-16.1.0.tar.gz) = 4285203
+TIMESTAMP = 1787587857
+SHA256 (av-17.0.0.tar.gz) = c53685df73775a8763c375c7b2d62a6cb149d992a26a4b098204da42ade8c3df
+SIZE (av-17.0.0.tar.gz) = 4410769
diff --git a/multimedia/py-av/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/multimedia/py-av/files/patch-pyproject.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1bbab80b42cf..000000000000
--- a/multimedia/py-av/files/patch-pyproject.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 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"},