diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/mediainfo-gui/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/mediainfo-gui/default.nix
index fc702f249de..0167132db78 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/mediainfo-gui/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/mediainfo-gui/default.nix
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
 , desktop_file_utils, libSM, imagemagick }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  version = "0.7.99";
+  version = "17.10";
   name = "mediainfo-gui-${version}";
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://mediaarea.net/download/source/mediainfo/${version}/mediainfo_${version}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "127d6wsrq3wg3ibbb28m26wrm54qbkv8h8xycanvml6ys4zqsc6a";
+    sha256 = "1yvh4r19kk3bzzgnr4ikrjxqldr6860s35sh4bqr51c7l77k048c";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook pkgconfig ];
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   sourceRoot = "./MediaInfo/Project/GNU/GUI/";
 
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file (GUI version)";
     longDescription = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/mediainfo/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/mediainfo/default.nix
index 84fef1b3983..e6175356348 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/mediainfo/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/mediainfo/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, autoreconfHook, pkgconfig, libzen, libmediainfo, zlib }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  version = "0.7.99";
+  version = "17.10";
   name = "mediainfo-${version}";
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://mediaarea.net/download/source/mediainfo/${version}/mediainfo_${version}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "127d6wsrq3wg3ibbb28m26wrm54qbkv8h8xycanvml6ys4zqsc6a";
+    sha256 = "1yvh4r19kk3bzzgnr4ikrjxqldr6860s35sh4bqr51c7l77k048c";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook pkgconfig ];
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   configureFlags = [ "--with-libmediainfo=${libmediainfo}" ];
 
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file";
     longDescription = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libmediainfo/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libmediainfo/default.nix
index 9e4b23a0919..25a597ea4da 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libmediainfo/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libmediainfo/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, autoreconfHook, pkgconfig, libzen, zlib }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  version = "0.7.99";
+  version = "17.10";
   name = "libmediainfo-${version}";
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://mediaarea.net/download/source/libmediainfo/${version}/libmediainfo_${version}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "126nkxrzs6dxzm3hzx6smvw6xgrqr3zs6hdqvl2xmvqy10p8z6pc";
+    sha256 = "00m1b4m37c9lm16yhh63p5pidg2sr3qvsw36672lklmcv3y1ic30";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook pkgconfig ];
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   configureFlags = [ "--enable-shared" ];
 
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
   postInstall = ''
     install -vD -m 644 libmediainfo.pc "$out/lib/pkgconfig/libmediainfo.pc"
   '';
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libzen/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libzen/default.nix
index ab473bbe85c..afa7696aca9 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libzen/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libzen/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, autoreconfHook }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  version = "0.4.35";
+  version = "0.4.37";
   name = "libzen-${version}";
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://mediaarea.net/download/source/libzen/${version}/libzen_${version}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "12a1icgcffgv503ii2k1453kxg5hfly09mf4zjcc80aq8a6rf8by";
+    sha256 = "1hcsrmn85b0xp0mp33aazk7g071q1v3f163nnhv8b0mv9c4bgsfn";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook ];
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   preConfigure = "sh autogen.sh";
 
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Shared library for libmediainfo and mediainfo";
     homepage = https://mediaarea.net/;