Mute Video
Remove audio from your videos while keeping the video quality intact. Perfect for creating silent videos, reducing file size, or preparing videos for background playback.
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Removing an audio track
Because a video file keeps its picture and sound as separate streams inside a container, removing the audio does not touch the video at all. The operation rewrites the container with the audio stream omitted and the video stream copied through byte for byte — no decoding, no re-encoding, no quality loss, and it completes almost instantly even on a large file.
That is worth knowing because muting during playback and muting a file are entirely different things. Turning the volume down in a player leaves the audio in the file, so whoever you send it to can hear it. Removing the stream deletes it. If the goal is that nobody hears what was recorded, only the second one works. The file also gets smaller by whatever the audio track weighed.
Why we built this tool
The reasons are usually practical or privacy-driven: a screen recording with background conversation in it, footage where someone said something not meant for the final cut, a clip that will have music added later, or a video where the original sound is simply unusable wind noise.
The privacy case is the important one, and it is why uploading the video to a muting website is self-defeating — you would be sending the audio you are trying to remove. Ours rewrites the container in your browser using WebAssembly FFmpeg, so the version containing sound never leaves your device. No upload, no size limit, and no watermark on the output.
Tips and common mistakes
- Extract the audio first if there is any chance you will want it later.
- Removing the stream is not the same as turning the volume down — only removal protects the content.
- The video stream is copied untouched, so quality is unaffected and the operation is fast.
- Confirm no audio track remains by checking the exported file's properties.
Quick start: using Mute Video
- Load the video whose audio you want gone.
- Confirm you do not need the sound — extract it first if you might.
- Run the mute; the video stream is copied without re-encoding.
- Play the result and check no audio track remains.
- Download the silent version and use it in place of the original.
Save the audio before deleting it with Extract Audio from Video, or lower it instead using Volume Booster on an extracted track.