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Strip the audio from a video while copying the picture untouched, so there is no quality loss and almost no waiting.
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MP4, WebM, MOV, AVI — processed locally and never uploaded.
Reviewed 2026-08-15
Free Mute Video – how it works
Muting drops the audio stream and copies the video stream verbatim into a new file. No frames are decoded or re-encoded, so the picture is identical to the source and the operation finishes in about the time it takes to write the file.
This is genuinely different from setting the volume to zero in a player or an editor. The audio data is removed from the container, so whoever receives the file has no way to recover it.
Because the video is copied rather than re-encoded, the output keeps the original codec. A muted H.264 file is still H.264 at the same bitrate and quality it started with.
How to use Mute Video online
- Add the video. Drop in the clip whose audio you want gone. Any format FFmpeg reads is accepted.
- Run the mute. There is nothing to configure. The tool discards the audio stream and stream-copies the video.
- Download the silent file. Save the result. Confirm in a player that the audio track is absent rather than just quiet.
When to use it
- Remove background conversation from a screen recording before sharing it.
- Strip a copyrighted track from a clip so a platform will not block it.
- Silence a video that will be captioned or narrated separately later.
- Drop microphone noise from a capture where only the picture matters.
Known limitations
- The whole track is removed. There is no way to mute only part of the timeline here; use the Video Editor for that.
- Removing audio is permanent in the output file. Keep your original if you might want the sound back.
- A video with no audio stream to begin with produces a copy rather than an error, which can look like nothing happened.
Frequently asked questions
Does muting reduce video quality?
No. The video stream is copied without being decoded, so the frames in the output are byte-identical to the source. Only the audio is dropped.
Is the audio really gone, or just silenced?
Genuinely gone. The audio stream is excluded from the output container, so the data is not present in the file at all and cannot be turned back up.
Is my video uploaded to a server?
No. FFmpeg is compiled to WebAssembly and runs inside the page, so the file is read from your disk into the tab's own memory. Nothing about the video is sent to opentools.
Can I mute just one section of the video?
Not with this tool, which removes the track wholesale. The Video Editor lets you work with clips on a timeline and control audio per track.
Why does the first render take longer?
The FFmpeg WebAssembly build is about 31 MB and has to download before the first job can start. The browser caches it afterwards, so later visits skip that step and begin encoding almost immediately.
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