Mute video
Strip the audio track and keep the picture.
This runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded. Longer clips take longer here than they would on a fast server — that is the trade-off for not sending the file.
About Mute video
Removes the audio track from a video in your browser, keeping the picture, without uploading the file to a mute tool.
Sometimes you need the picture and none of the room noise: a screen recording with a Discord call in the background, a clip you will subtitle later. This page drops the audio with `-an` and tries to copy the video stream so you are not waiting on a full re-encode. If the container refuses a copy, you will see an error rather than a fake mute that still has a stream.
The result is not the same as extracting audio. Extract keeps sound and throws the picture away. Mute keeps picture and throws the sound away. If you need both outputs, run both tools; the original file is still on disk, because it never left.
This will not remove a burnt-in voice from the pixels. It will not beep a word. Those are different problems. It will make a file that plays silently in a player that respects the missing track.
How to use Mute video
- 1Drop the clip.
- 2Click Mute.
- 3Download and play it with the volume up to confirm it is actually silent.
What it won't do
- No partial mute, no bleep overlay.
- Copy-only; some odd containers will fail.
Common questions
Does mute re-encode the video?
It tries a stream copy of the video with audio stripped. That is fast and lossless for the picture. If copy fails for your container, convert to MP4 first and mute that.
Can I mute only part of the timeline?
No. The whole file loses its audio track. For a beep in the middle you want an editor, not this page.
Will players still show a speaker icon?
Depends on the player. The file should have no audio stream. If a player synthesises silence, that is the player, not a hidden track I left in.
Related tools
Why this one doesn't upload your file
There is no server to upload to. This page is a static file, and the work happens in your browser using the same graphics and WebAssembly code that renders every other site you visit. Your file is read from disk into memory, processed, and handed back as a download. Once the page has loaded you can disconnect from the network entirely and it keeps working. The longer explanation