diff --git a/textproc/libebml/Makefile b/textproc/libebml/Makefile
index f6880ad8fdfc..b24d83fa2ba5 100644
--- a/textproc/libebml/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/libebml/Makefile
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 
 PORTNAME=	libebml
 DISTVERSION=	1.4.0
-DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	release-
 CATEGORIES=	textproc
+MASTER_SITES=	https://dl.matroska.org/downloads/libebml/
 
 MAINTAINER=	multimedia@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	EBML (Extensible Binary Meta Language), sort of binary version of XML
@@ -12,12 +12,9 @@ COMMENT=	EBML (Extensible Binary Meta Language), sort of binary version of XML
 LICENSE=	LGPL21+
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.LGPL
 
-USES=		cmake compiler:c++11-lang pathfix tar:bzip2
+USES=		cmake compiler:c++11-lang tar:xz
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 
-USE_GITHUB=	yes
-GH_ACCOUNT=	Matroska-Org
-
 CMAKE_ARGS=	-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=YES
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/libebml/distinfo b/textproc/libebml/distinfo
index 5d329c380588..81c085bf3533 100644
--- a/textproc/libebml/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/libebml/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1593322518
-SHA256 (Matroska-Org-libebml-release-1.4.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 5ad468d78d21dfcde2901320faad4122ade2a12ecb65ce557b5e15d46671cceb
-SIZE (Matroska-Org-libebml-release-1.4.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 84869
+TIMESTAMP = 1596582606
+SHA256 (libebml-1.4.0.tar.xz) = 80abc9a82549615018798ee704997270a39b43de9a6e7e0d23b62f8ce682c4b3
+SIZE (libebml-1.4.0.tar.xz) = 69944
diff --git a/textproc/libebml/files/patch-ebml__EbmlBinary.h b/textproc/libebml/files/patch-ebml__EbmlBinary.h
deleted file mode 100644
index c141191bb50e..000000000000
--- a/textproc/libebml/files/patch-ebml__EbmlBinary.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- ./ebml/EbmlBinary.h.orig	2013-03-19 19:42:58.000000000 +0100
-+++ ./ebml/EbmlBinary.h	2013-09-06 22:17:55.987709299 +0200
-@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
- 
- #include "EbmlTypes.h"
- #include "EbmlElement.h"
-+#include <stdlib.h>
- 
- // ----- Added 10/15/2003 by jcsston from Zen -----
- #if defined (__BORLANDC__) //Maybe other compilers?