diff --git a/homeassistant/components/cast/media_player.py b/homeassistant/components/cast/media_player.py
index 4b2972b0c002eb..0a1406adceec4a 100644
--- a/homeassistant/components/cast/media_player.py
+++ b/homeassistant/components/cast/media_player.py
@@ -1046,6 +1046,11 @@ def media_image_url(self):
 
         return images[0].url if images and images[0].url else None
 
+    @property
+    def media_image_remotely_accessible(self) -> bool:
+        """If the image url is remotely accessible."""
+        return True
+
     @property
     def media_title(self):
         """Title of current playing media."""
diff --git a/homeassistant/components/media_player/__init__.py b/homeassistant/components/media_player/__init__.py
index 7dcfdac52179f8..478f59d2817ae8 100644
--- a/homeassistant/components/media_player/__init__.py
+++ b/homeassistant/components/media_player/__init__.py
@@ -324,6 +324,11 @@ def media_image_url(self):
         """Image url of current playing media."""
         return None
 
+    @property
+    def media_image_remotely_accessible(self) -> bool:
+        """If the image url is remotely accessible."""
+        return False
+
     @property
     def media_image_hash(self):
         """Hash value for media image."""
@@ -722,6 +727,9 @@ def entity_picture(self):
         if self.state == STATE_OFF:
             return None
 
+        if self.media_image_remotely_accessible:
+            return self.media_image_url
+
         image_hash = self.media_image_hash
 
         if image_hash is None:
@@ -808,6 +816,14 @@ async def get(self, request, entity_id):
         if not authenticated:
             return web.Response(status=401)
 
+        if player.media_image_remotely_accessible:
+            url = player.media_image_url
+            if url is not None:
+                return web.Response(status=302, headers={
+                    'location': url
+                })
+            return web.Response(status=500)
+
         data, content_type = await player.async_get_media_image()
 
         if data is None:
diff --git a/tests/components/media_player/test_init.py b/tests/components/media_player/test_init.py
index 808c6e4f50fa77..23deffa972a2ed 100644
--- a/tests/components/media_player/test_init.py
+++ b/tests/components/media_player/test_init.py
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
 from tests.common import mock_coro
 
 
-async def test_get_panels(hass, hass_ws_client):
-    """Test get_panels command."""
+async def test_get_image(hass, hass_ws_client):
+    """Test get image via WS command."""
     await async_setup_component(hass, 'media_player', {
         'media_player': {
             'platform': 'demo'
@@ -35,3 +35,40 @@ async def test_get_panels(hass, hass_ws_client):
     assert msg['result']['content_type'] == 'image/jpeg'
     assert msg['result']['content'] == \
         base64.b64encode(b'image').decode('utf-8')
+
+
+async def test_get_image_http(hass, hass_client):
+    """Test get image via http command."""
+    await async_setup_component(hass, 'media_player', {
+        'media_player': {
+            'platform': 'demo'
+        }
+    })
+
+    client = await hass_client()
+
+    with patch('homeassistant.components.media_player.MediaPlayerDevice.'
+               'async_get_media_image', return_value=mock_coro(
+                   (b'image', 'image/jpeg'))):
+        resp = await client.get('/api/media_player_proxy/media_player.bedroom')
+        content = await resp.read()
+
+    assert content == b'image'
+
+
+async def test_get_image_http_url(hass, hass_client):
+    """Test get image url via http command."""
+    await async_setup_component(hass, 'media_player', {
+        'media_player': {
+            'platform': 'demo'
+        }
+    })
+
+    client = await hass_client()
+
+    with patch('homeassistant.components.media_player.MediaPlayerDevice.'
+               'media_image_remotely_accessible', return_value=True):
+        resp = await client.get('/api/media_player_proxy/media_player.bedroom',
+                                allow_redirects=False)
+        assert resp.headers['Location'] == \
+            'https://img.youtube.com/vi/kxopViU98Xo/hqdefault.jpg'