diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/MPlayer/win32codecs/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/video/MPlayer/win32codecs/default.nix
index 0994faf9858f..6db49fd0f661 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/video/MPlayer/win32codecs/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/video/MPlayer/win32codecs/default.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   name = "MPlayer-codecs-essential-20040427";
   builder = ./builder.sh;
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20040427.tar.bz2;
+    url = http://losser.st-lab.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/dist/essential-20040427.tar.bz2;
     md5 = "4ffc1682448aa870aec9d8efc1321a09";
   };
 }