diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/mplayer/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/video/mplayer/default.nix
index f84c8e5c18ef..bf94c7c1d9f1 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/video/mplayer/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/video/mplayer/default.nix
@@ -120,12 +120,12 @@ in
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "mplayer";
-  version = "1.5-unstable-2024-07-03";
+  version = "1.5-unstable-2024-12-21";
 
   src = fetchsvn {
     url = "svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk";
-    rev = "38637";
-    hash = "sha256-9KQOB6QIs1VZhazJqW8dY4ASiMgoxV6davfpKgLPbmE=";
+    rev = "38668";
+    hash = "sha256-ezWYBkhiSBgf/SeTrO6sKGbL/IrX+82KXCIlqYMEtgY=";
   };
 
   prePatch = ''
@@ -276,7 +276,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     description = "Movie player that supports many video formats";
     homepage = "http://mplayerhq.hu";
     license = licenses.gpl2Only;
-    maintainers = [ ];
+    # Picking it up: no idea about the origin of some choices (but seems fine)
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.raskin ];
     platforms = [
       "i686-linux"
       "x86_64-linux"
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/tf/tftp-hpa/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/tf/tftp-hpa/package.nix
index f9946be7423a..8a41255c8398 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/tf/tftp-hpa/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/tf/tftp-hpa/package.nix
@@ -1,15 +1,18 @@
 {
   lib,
   stdenv,
-  fetchurl,
+  fetchgit,
+  autoconf,
+  automake,
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "tftp-hpa";
-  version = "5.2";
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://kernel/software/network/tftp/tftp-hpa/${pname}-${version}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "12vidchglhyc20znq5wdsbhi9mqg90jnl7qr9qs8hbvaz4fkdvmg";
+  version = "5.2-untagged-2024-06-10";
+  src = fetchgit {
+    url = "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/tftp/tftp-hpa.git";
+    hash = "sha256-lTMldYO/cZdLj0UjOPPBHfYf2GBG0O+5lhP9ikqn3tY=";
+    rev = "2c86ff58dcc003107b47f2d35aa0fdc4a3fd95e1";
   };
 
   # Workaround build failure on -fno-common toolchains like upstream
@@ -18,6 +21,15 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   #     `toplevel'; tftp.o:/build/tftp-hpa-5.2/tftp/tftp.c:51: first defined here
   env.NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-fcommon";
 
+  preConfigure = ''
+    ./autogen.sh
+  '';
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    autoconf
+    automake
+  ];
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "TFTP tools - a lot of fixes on top of BSD TFTP";
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ raskin ];