diff --git a/ports/qt5-webengine/CONTROL b/ports/qt5-webengine/CONTROL
index 929a7ad64d489d..a34cdc1ecd25ac 100644
--- a/ports/qt5-webengine/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/qt5-webengine/CONTROL
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 Source: qt5-webengine
 Version: 5.15.2
-Port-Version: 1
+Port-Version: 2
 Description: Qt5 webengine Module; 
 Build-Depends:  qt5-base[core], qt5-declarative, qt5-location, qt5-quickcontrols, qt5-quickcontrols2, qt5-tools, qt5-webchannel, atlmfc (windows), ffmpeg[core] (!windows)
 Supports: !static
+Default-Features: 
+
+Feature:  proprietary-codecs
+Description: Enable proprietary-codecs in qtwebengine
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ports/qt5-webengine/portfile.cmake b/ports/qt5-webengine/portfile.cmake
index 797d5fedb46793..60020c83f8a139 100644
--- a/ports/qt5-webengine/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/qt5-webengine/portfile.cmake
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
 vcpkg_check_linkage(ONLY_DYNAMIC_LIBRARY)
+string(LENGTH "${CURRENT_BUILDTREES_DIR}" buildtrees_path_length)
+if(buildtrees_path_length GREATER 35 AND CMAKE_HOST_WIN32)
+    vcpkg_buildpath_length_warning(35)
+    message(FATAL_ERROR "terminating due to source length.")
+endif()
 #set(VCPKG_BUILD_TYPE release) #You probably want to set this to reduce build type and space requirements
-message(STATUS "${PORT} requires a lot of free disk space (>300GB), ram (>32 GB) and time (>4h per configuration) to be successfully build.\n\
--- As such ${PORT} is not properly tested.\n\
+message(STATUS "${PORT} requires a lot of free disk space (>100GB), ram (>8 GB) and time (>2h per configuration) to be successfully build.\n\
+-- As such ${PORT} is currently experimental.\n\
 -- If ${PORT} fails post build validation please open up an issue. \n\
 -- If it fails due to post validation the successfully installed files can be found in ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR} \n\
 -- and just need to be copied into ${CURRENT_INSTALLED_DIR}")
@@ -42,8 +47,12 @@ set(PATCHES common.pri.patch
             build_2.patch
             build_3.patch)
 
+set(OPTIONS)
+if("proprietary-codecs" IN_LIST FEATURES)
+    list(APPEND OPTIONS "-webengine-proprietary-codecs")
+endif()
 if(NOT VCPKG_TARGET_IS_WINDOWS)
-    list(APPEND CORE_OPTIONS "BUILD_OPTIONS" "-webengine-system-libwebp" "-webengine-system-ffmpeg" "-webengine-system-icu")
+    list(APPEND OPTIONS "-webengine-system-libwebp" "-webengine-system-ffmpeg" "-webengine-system-icu")
 endif()
 
-qt_submodule_installation(${CORE_OPTIONS} PATCHES ${PATCHES})
+qt_submodule_installation(PATCHES ${PATCHES} BUILD_OPTIONS ${OPTIONS})
diff --git a/versions/baseline.json b/versions/baseline.json
index 29437abc78f472..ce69773cf29750 100644
--- a/versions/baseline.json
+++ b/versions/baseline.json
@@ -5026,7 +5026,7 @@
     },
     "qt5-webengine": {
       "baseline": "5.15.2",
-      "port-version": 1
+      "port-version": 2
     },
     "qt5-webglplugin": {
       "baseline": "5.15.2",
diff --git a/versions/q-/qt5-webengine.json b/versions/q-/qt5-webengine.json
index 08757c6e6ac42c..d3382ca0721799 100644
--- a/versions/q-/qt5-webengine.json
+++ b/versions/q-/qt5-webengine.json
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 {
   "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "3a220ca2fe835251196c717e4f1df91516430d8b",
+      "version-string": "5.15.2",
+      "port-version": 2
+    },
     {
       "git-tree": "8f8f6defb09c499cfe581195f03e88951431d73c",
       "version-string": "5.15.2",