Movie Cover Image Inside mkv File

[TheDreadPirate]

I'm going through and ripping my movie disc collection to mkv for use on Jellyfin and a lot of the movies will have cover images that'll get saved into the mkv output. Is there a way to get Jellyfin to use that image art inside of the mkv file?

Looking to use local metadata as I would think that would be more performant than grabbing from external sites (will have to work on setting up caching and such for the metadata on the server also).

Thanks!

Jellyfin always saves and caches metadata it pulls from the Internet.  It is not retrieving data from the Internet each time you load the page.

To answer your question, Jellyfin can extract embedded images, but you have to set the priority of the embedded image higher than online sources.  For shows, this is only available for the image of each episode.