diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/qutebrowser/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/qutebrowser/default.nix
index c90c13b190d..7f2190ab82c 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/qutebrowser/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/qutebrowser/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchgit, python, buildPythonPackage, qt5, pyqt5, jinja2, pygments, pyyaml, pypeg2 }:
+{ stdenv, fetchgit, python, buildPythonPackage, qt5, pyqt5, jinja2, pygments, pyyaml, pypeg2,
+  gst_plugins_base, gst_plugins_good, gst_ffmpeg }:
 
 let version = "0.4.0"; in
 
@@ -19,6 +20,12 @@ buildPythonPackage {
     python pyyaml pyqt5 jinja2 pygments pypeg2
   ];
 
+  makeWrapperArgs = ''
+    --prefix GST_PLUGIN_PATH : "${stdenv.lib.makeSearchPath "lib/gstreamer-0.10"
+       [ gst_plugins_base gst_plugins_good gst_ffmpeg ]}"
+    --prefix QT_PLUGIN_PATH : "${qt5.multimedia}/lib/qt5/plugins"
+  '';
+
   meta = {
     homepage = https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser;
     description = "Keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/qt-5/5.4/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/qt-5/5.4/default.nix
index 5862fb6708d..136c352d1aa 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/qt-5/5.4/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/qt-5/5.4/default.nix
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ let
 
       multimedia = callPackage
         (
-          { qtSubmodule, base, declarative
+          { qtSubmodule, base, declarative, pkgconfig
           , alsaLib, gstreamer, gst_plugins_base, libpulseaudio
           }:
 
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ let
             name = "qtmultimedia";
             qtInputs = [ base declarative ];
             buildInputs = [
-              alsaLib gstreamer gst_plugins_base libpulseaudio
+              pkgconfig alsaLib gstreamer gst_plugins_base libpulseaudio
             ];
           }
         )