Remove Audio from Video: Mute Any Clip

Drop a video and get the same clip back with no sound. The video track is copied, not re-encoded, so it keeps its quality and finishes in seconds.

Drop a video to remove its audio

Drop a video (MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI)

Supported: MP4, M4V, MOV, MKV, WEBM, AVI, TS

Drop a video first

How it works

1Drop a video
2The audio comes out and the picture is copied
3Download the silent video

The video stays on your device.

How to remove audio from a video

Drop the video

Drag it onto the page, or click to choose it. MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI and TS files are accepted.

Let it run

There is nothing to choose, so the job starts by itself. Each track gets a line saying what happens to it.

Download the silent video

Play it on the page if your browser can, then save it. It keeps the original name with -no-audio added.

Remove the sound from a video and keep the picture as it is

Some clips work better silent, whether the sound is wind, traffic or a private conversation. This page deletes the audio track and copies the video track into a new file of the same type, so the picture is not re-encoded and you get the same clip with no sound.

How removing audio works

Your browser reads the file's header and lists its tracks. The audio tracks are left out and the video track is copied packet by packet into a new file, which is why a long clip does not take long and the quality does not change. The container stays the same, so an MP4 stays an MP4 and a MOV stays a MOV.

What happens to each track

Each track gets its own line as the job starts, and the lines stay under the result, so you can read this for your own file on the page.

Video. Copied, never re-encoded. If a file holds a second video track, such as another angle or a cover image, only the main one is kept.
Audio. All of it is removed, in every language.
Subtitles. Text subtitles in an MP4 or MOV are kept. In most MKV, WebM and TS files they are not kept, and the line says so.
Camera data. Timecode and camera telemetry such as GoPro GPMF are not kept.

Your file stays on your device

The audio is removed in your browser. The video is read from your disk and the new file is written back to it, so the file stays on your device and nothing is sent to a server.

Limits

Most videos can be as large as your device and its free storage allow. AVI files and older video such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2 and VC-1 are handled up to 1 GB. A rotated MKV or WebM is refused, because a copy here would lose the rotation, and the page offers a way out when there is one. WMV and FLV are not supported.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I remove audio from an MP4?

Drop the MP4 on this page. The job starts by itself, the audio tracks come out, the video track is copied, and you download a new MP4 with the same picture and no sound.

Does removing audio reduce the video quality?

No. The video track is copied, not re-encoded, so the picture is the same data as in the original. The new file is usually a little smaller, since the sound is gone.

Does it keep my subtitles?

Text subtitles in an MP4 or MOV are kept. In most MKV, WebM and TS files they are not kept, and the line for each track says so as the job starts and under the result. Text subtitles in an MKV can stay if you first run the file through MKV to MP4, then remove the audio from the MP4.

Are the recording date, camera data and chapters kept?

The recording date is kept in MP4 and MOV files, not in MKV or WebM. Camera telemetry and timecode are not kept, and chapters usually are not either. The title, GPS location, rotation and HDR tags stay with the video.

How do I mute only part of a video?

This page removes the sound from the whole video. Muting one part takes a video editor, because that stretch of sound has to be cut out and the rest kept.

How do I extract the sound instead of deleting it?

Use Extract Audio from Video. It saves the sound as an audio file, the opposite of this page.