diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/qarte/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/video/qarte/default.nix
index bd70c84175ce..cd6416032da2 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/video/qarte/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/video/qarte/default.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 { mkDerivation, lib, fetchbzr, python3, rtmpdump }:
 
 let
-  pythonEnv = python3.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ pyqt5 ]);
+  pythonEnv = python3.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ pyqt5_with_qtmultimedia ]);
 in mkDerivation {
   name = "qarte-4.6.0";
   src = fetchbzr {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyqt/5.x.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyqt/5.x.nix
index 5791299bdc12..f3578459b9d0 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyqt/5.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyqt/5.x.nix
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 , qtdeclarative
 , qtwebchannel
 , withConnectivity ? false, qtconnectivity
+, withMultimedia ? false, qtmultimedia
 , withWebKit ? false, qtwebkit
 , withWebSockets ? false, qtwebsockets
 }:
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ in buildPythonPackage rec {
     qtwebchannel
   ]
     ++ lib.optional withConnectivity qtconnectivity
+    ++ lib.optional withMultimedia qtmultimedia
     ++ lib.optional withWebKit qtwebkit
     ++ lib.optional withWebSockets qtwebsockets
   ;
@@ -121,6 +123,7 @@ in buildPythonPackage rec {
     ]
     ++ lib.optional withWebSockets "PyQt5.QtWebSockets"
     ++ lib.optional withWebKit "PyQt5.QtWebKit"
+    ++ lib.optional withMultimedia "PyQt5.QtMultimedia"
     ++ lib.optional withConnectivity "PyQt5.QtConnectivity"
     ;
     imports = lib.concatMapStrings (module: "import ${module};") modules;
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 008c624c94ac..79d4ee0a5625 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -984,6 +984,8 @@ in {
   */
   pyqt5_with_qtwebkit = self.pyqt5.override { withWebKit = true; };
 
+  pyqt5_with_qtmultimedia = self.pyqt5.override { withMultimedia = true; };
+
   pyqtwebengine = pkgs.libsForQt5.callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyqtwebengine {
     pythonPackages = self;
   };