diff --git a/multimedia/ffmpeg2theora/Makefile b/multimedia/ffmpeg2theora/Makefile
index c57482af52bb..5f834dcf2bf7 100644
--- a/multimedia/ffmpeg2theora/Makefile
+++ b/multimedia/ffmpeg2theora/Makefile
@@ -1,27 +1,27 @@
 # Created by: Anders Nordby <anders@FreeBSD.org>
 
 PORTNAME=	ffmpeg2theora
 PORTVERSION=	0.30
 PORTREVISION=	6
 CATEGORIES=	multimedia
 MASTER_SITES=	http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/downloads/
 
 MAINTAINER=	wg@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Reencode many media file formats to Ogg Theora
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv3
 
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libavcodec.so:multimedia/ffmpeg \
 		libkate.so:multimedia/libkate \
 		libtheora.so:multimedia/libtheora
 
-USES=		iconv pkgconfig scons:python2 tar:bzip2
+USES=		iconv pkgconfig scons tar:bzip2
 MAKE_ARGS=	APPEND_CCFLAGS="${CFLAGS} ${CPPFLAGS}" \
 		APPEND_LINKFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} ${LIBS}"
 
 CPPFLAGS+=	-I${LOCALBASE}/include
 LIBS+=		-L${LOCALBASE}/lib ${ICONV_LIB}
 
 PLIST_FILES=	bin/ffmpeg2theora man/man1/ffmpeg2theora.1.gz
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/multimedia/ffmpeg2theora/files/patch-SConstruct b/multimedia/ffmpeg2theora/files/patch-SConstruct
index 38b7c79686de..324d07c9fa7f 100644
--- a/multimedia/ffmpeg2theora/files/patch-SConstruct
+++ b/multimedia/ffmpeg2theora/files/patch-SConstruct
@@ -1,30 +1,103 @@
 --- SConstruct.orig	2016-01-10 04:35:56 UTC
 +++ SConstruct
+@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ scons_version=(1,2,0)
+ try:
+     EnsureSConsVersion(*scons_version)
+ except TypeError:
+-    print 'SCons %d.%d.%d or greater is required, but you have an older version' % scons_version
++    print('SCons %d.%d.%d or greater is required, but you have an older version' % scons_version)
+     Exit(2)
+ 
+ opts = Variables()
 @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ opts.AddVariables(
    BoolVariable('libkate', 'enable libkate support', 1),
    BoolVariable('crossmingw', 'Set to 1 for crosscompile with mingw', 0)
  )
 -env = Environment(options = opts)
 +env = Environment(options = opts, ENV=os.environ, CC = Split(os.environ['CC']))
  Help(opts.GenerateHelpText(env))
  
  pkg_flags="--cflags --libs"
+@@ -119,29 +119,29 @@ if env["build_ffmpeg"]:
+ if not env.GetOption('clean'):
+   pkgconfig_version='0.15.0'
+   if not conf.CheckPKGConfig(pkgconfig_version): 
+-     print 'pkg-config >= %s not found.' % pkgconfig_version 
++     print('pkg-config >= %s not found.' % pkgconfig_version )
+      Exit(1)
+ 
+   if not conf.CheckPKG("ogg >= 1.1"): 
+-    print 'ogg >= 1.1 missing'
++    print('ogg >= 1.1 missing')
+     Exit(1) 
+ 
+   if not conf.CheckPKG("vorbis"): 
+-    print 'vorbis missing'
++    print('vorbis missing')
+     Exit(1) 
+ 
+   if not conf.CheckPKG("vorbisenc"): 
+-    print 'vorbisenc missing'
++    print('vorbisenc missing')
+     Exit(1) 
+ 
+   if not conf.CheckPKG("theoraenc >= 1.1.0"): 
+-    print 'theoraenc >= 1.1.0 missing'
++    print('theoraenc >= 1.1.0 missing')
+     Exit(1) 
+ 
+   XIPH_LIBS="ogg >= 1.1 vorbis vorbisenc theoraenc >= 1.1.0"
+ 
+   if not conf.CheckPKG(XIPH_LIBS): 
+-    print 'some xiph libs are missing, ffmpeg2theora depends on %s' % XIPH_LIBS
++    print('some xiph libs are missing, ffmpeg2theora depends on %s' % XIPH_LIBS)
+     Exit(1) 
+   ParsePKGConfig(env, XIPH_LIBS)
+ 
 @@ -152,7 +152,6 @@ if not env.GetOption('clean'):
        "libavcodec >= 52.30.0",
        "libpostproc",
        "libswscale",
 -      "libswresample",
        "libavutil",
    ]
    if os.path.exists("./ffmpeg"):
-@@ -214,9 +213,8 @@ if not env.GetOption('clean'):
+@@ -177,13 +176,13 @@ if not env.GetOption('clean'):
+     FFMPEG_LIBS.append('libavresample')
+ 
+   if not conf.CheckPKG(' '.join(FFMPEG_LIBS)): 
+-    print """
++    print("""
+         Could not find %s.
+         You can install it via
+          sudo apt-get install %s
+         or update PKG_CONFIG_PATH to point to ffmpeg's source folder
+         or run ./get_ffmpeg.sh (for more information see INSTALL)
+-    """ %(" ".join(FFMPEG_LIBS), " ".join(["%s-dev"%l.split()[0] for l in FFMPEG_LIBS]))
++    """ %(" ".join(FFMPEG_LIBS), " ".join(["%s-dev"%l.split()[0] for l in FFMPEG_LIBS])))
+     Exit(1) 
+ 
+   for lib in FFMPEG_LIBS:
+@@ -204,19 +203,18 @@ if not env.GetOption('clean'):
+       ParsePKGConfig(env, KATE_LIBS)
+       env.Append(CCFLAGS=['-DHAVE_KATE', '-DHAVE_OGGKATE'])
+     else:
+-      print """
++      print("""
+           Could not find libkate. Subtitles support will be disabled.
+           You can also run ./get_libkate.sh (for more information see INSTALL)
+           or update PKG_CONFIG_PATH to point to libkate's source folder
+-      """
++      """)
+ 
+   if conf.CheckCHeader('iconv.h'):
        env.Append(CCFLAGS=[
          '-DHAVE_ICONV'
        ])
 -      if conf.CheckLib('iconv'):
 -          env.Append(LIBS=['iconv'])
  
 +  env.Append(LIBS=['m'])
    if env['crossmingw']:
        env.Append(CCFLAGS=['-Wl,-subsystem,windows'])
        env.Append(LIBS=['m'])