diff --git a/textproc/libebml/Makefile b/textproc/libebml/Makefile
index d0969f4d8d48f..b6d3aa45688c6 100644
--- a/textproc/libebml/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/libebml/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 PORTNAME=	libebml
-DISTVERSION=	1.4.4
+DISTVERSION=	1.4.5
 CATEGORIES=	textproc
-MASTER_SITES=	https://dl.matroska.org/downloads/libebml/
+MASTER_SITES=	https://dl.matroska.org/downloads/${PORTNAME}/
 
 MAINTAINER=	multimedia@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	EBML (Extensible Binary Meta Language), sort of binary version of XML
@@ -10,10 +10,14 @@ WWW=		https://www.matroska.org/
 LICENSE=	LGPL21+
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.LGPL
 
-USES=		cmake compiler:c++11-lang cpe tar:xz
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${LOCALBASE}/include/utf8cpp/utf8/checked.h:devel/utf8cpp
+
+USES=		cmake compiler:c++14-lang cpe localbase pathfix tar:xz
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 CPE_VENDOR=	matroska
 
+EXTRACT_AFTER_ARGS=	--exclude src/lib
+
 CMAKE_ARGS=	-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=YES
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/libebml/distinfo b/textproc/libebml/distinfo
index dd9eb416a0c92..0e9cc82ff8de6 100644
--- a/textproc/libebml/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/libebml/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1665308816
-SHA256 (libebml-1.4.4.tar.xz) = 82dc5f83356cc9340aee76ed7512210b3a4edf5f346bc9c2c7044f55052687a7
-SIZE (libebml-1.4.4.tar.xz) = 64116
+TIMESTAMP = 1702779355
+SHA256 (libebml-1.4.5.tar.xz) = 4971640b0592da29c2d426f303e137a9b0b3d07e1b81d069c1e56a2f49ab221b
+SIZE (libebml-1.4.5.tar.xz) = 64408
diff --git a/textproc/libebml/files/patch-src_EbmlUnicodeString.cpp b/textproc/libebml/files/patch-src_EbmlUnicodeString.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..bcb70d7410a9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/libebml/files/patch-src_EbmlUnicodeString.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- src/EbmlUnicodeString.cpp.orig	2023-12-17 02:35:17 UTC
++++ src/EbmlUnicodeString.cpp
+@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
+ 
+ #include "ebml/EbmlUnicodeString.h"
+ 
+-#include "lib/utf8-cpp/source/utf8/checked.h"
++#include "utf8cpp/utf8/checked.h"
+ 
+ namespace libebml {
+