Mute Video

How to mute a video

1. 1

   Choose a video

   Pick or drop one MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV or MPEG-TS file. The page shows whether it has audio.

2. 2

   Press Mute Video

   Every audio track is left out and the video is copied into a new file of the same kind.

3. 3

   Check and download

   The saved file is opened again and must contain no audio track before it is offered. Play it, then download.

What to know

• The picture is not re-encoded. The video stream is copied as it is, so its quality, size and frame rate do not change, and it is fast. The file keeps its container: MP4 stays MP4, MOV stays MOV, WebM stays WebM, MKV stays MKV and MPEG-TS stays MPEG-TS. The bytes of the file still differ from the original, because the container is written again.
• Real removal, not a muted player. This removes the audio from the file. It is not just a muted preview. The result is checked to have zero audio tracks.
• No quiet fallback. If a video cannot be copied into a new file as it is, the tool stops and tells you. It never re-encodes the picture behind your back.
• A video with no sound. If the video has no audio track, the page says “This video has no audio track.” and offers your original file, without claiming that anything changed.

Supported files

The tools open one MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV or MPEG-TS file at a time. Tested: H.264 video with AAC audio in MP4, MOV, MKV and MPEG-TS, VP9 video with Opus audio in WebM, and HEVC in MP4 (which can be muted and fast-cut anywhere, but only re-encoded where your browser can decode it). MPEG-TS means plain 188-byte .ts files; 192-byte camcorder and Blu-ray streams (.m2ts, AVCHD .mts) are not opened because their audio cannot be read reliably, and a fast cut is not offered for MPEG-TS. Other codecs inside these containers are tried, but whether they work depends on your browser; the tool says so in plain words when it cannot handle a file, and tells a damaged file apart from an unsupported one.

Only the main video track and its main audio track are used. Other tracks, subtitles, chapters and descriptive tags (title, location, creation tool) are not kept. The picture’s rotation and shape are kept, and the frame rate is never changed. Transparency is not kept when a video is re-encoded.

Limits

largest video file

500 MB

longest video

30 minutes

largest picture re-encoded

4K

largest result

500 MB

The video is read from your disk in small pieces, but the finished file is built in memory and then copied once for download, and decoded frames take memory while a run is going, so long or high-resolution videos can fail on phones and small computers. Speed depends entirely on your device and browser, and a run can take longer than the video itself. Cancel stops the work at once and keeps nothing.

Frequently asked questions