Mute video

Remove the sound from a video without touching a single frame of the picture. It is the fastest thing this site can do to a video file.

Drop your files here

.mp4, .mov, .mkv, .webm, .avi, .m4v · up to 300 MB

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How to Mute the video

1
Add your video
MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM or AVI, up to 300 MB. No frame is decoded, so the limit is far higher than most tools on this site.
2
Pick a container and subtitles
Keep the original file type or force MP4, and choose whether subtitle tracks travel with the silent video.
3
Click Mute and download
The picture comes back byte-for-byte identical, just without a soundtrack.

Why this is the fastest tool here

Every other video tool on this site either decodes and re-encodes the picture or at least reads through the whole stream. Muting does neither: the video track is copied packet for packet from the original file straight into the output container, and only the audio track is left out. There is nothing to compute and nothing that can go soft or blocky, because the pixels never pass through a decoder at all. A large file still takes only seconds, and the ceiling on file size is set by how fast your browser can read and write bytes, not by how much processing it can do.

Container: keep or convert

By default the output stays in whatever container the video arrived in: an MKV stays an MKV, a MOV stays a MOV. Switching to MP4 repacks the same video stream into the most widely supported container without touching the codec, which works for H.264, HEVC, AV1 and MPEG-4 video. A handful of older codecs, most commonly VP9 inside a WebM file, cannot legally sit inside an MP4 box, and forcing that combination is refused rather than silently producing a file nothing can open.

Subtitles ride along by default

Removing the soundtrack has nothing to do with subtitle tracks, and by default every one of them is kept. Files with several subtitle languages, common with downloaded shows and archived recordings, keep all of them intact. The toggle exists for the rarer case where a completely clean, subtitle-free file is what's needed.

The picture is copied, never re-encoded

Every byte of the video track goes from your file straight into the result, and only the audio stream is dropped, all on your own device. There is no upload, no account and no queue, and because the work is nearly free for a browser to do, there is no limit on how many videos you mute.

Frequently asked questions

Does muting change the picture quality?

No. The video stream is copied as-is, packet for packet. Not one frame is decoded or re-encoded, so the picture is byte-for-byte identical to the source.

Why is this so much faster than compressing or cropping?

Those tools have to decode and re-encode every frame. Muting only removes a track from the container, which is a copy operation rather than a computation.

What happens if the video has no audio track already?

You get the original file back unchanged, with a note that there was nothing to remove, with no error and no wasted step.

Are subtitles kept?

Yes, by default. Turn the subtitles toggle off if you want a video with neither sound nor subtitle tracks.

Can I mute several videos at once?

Yes. Add up to 20 files and they're processed one after another, packaged into a single ZIP when there's more than one result.

Why would I force the container to MP4?

MP4 is the container the widest range of players, phones and editors accept. Use it when the source is an older or less common container and you want maximum compatibility.