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Free Online Video Muter

Remove the audio track from a video file.

Drop a video here or click to browse MP4, WebM, MOV, or any video format your browser can play
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Audio track Removed

The exported file contains video only. Players will show no audio stream.

The video is played once and re-recorded without an audio track. Processing takes about as long as the clip itself.

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About the Video Muter

Sometimes a video is perfect except for its soundtrack: a screen recording catches a notification chime, a phone clip includes wind noise, or a background track is not licensed for the place you want to publish. This tool removes the audio completely and gives you a new video file with no sound stream at all. The original is never modified, and the process runs entirely inside your browser.

Why the video is re-recorded

Removing an audio track without re-encoding requires editing the container at the byte level, which is not something browsers expose to JavaScript. Instead, this tool decodes the video, paints each frame onto a canvas, captures that canvas as a media stream, and records it. Because the canvas stream is created without an audio track, the resulting file is genuinely silent rather than merely turned down.

What stays the same

The picture keeps its original resolution and timing. Only the frames are re-encoded, so fine grain and fast motion may lose a little sharpness compared with the source. The clip length is preserved, and the exported file plays normally in browsers, phones, and video editors. Petitions, presentations, and social uploads that require a silent background video work well with this output.

Format and timing

When the browser can record H.264 in an MP4 container, the download is an .mp4 file. Otherwise it is WebM, and the interface labels the actual format before and after processing. Recording happens in real time: a two-minute clip takes roughly two minutes. Keep the tab visible, since background throttling can drop frames or pause canvas capture. For very long videos, available memory may limit how much recorded data can be held before the final file is assembled.

Frequently asked questions

Does muting reduce the file size?

Usually yes, but not dramatically. The audio track is gone, yet the video is re-encoded, so the final size depends mostly on the video bitrate chosen by the browser's encoder.

Can I get the audio back later?

Not from the exported silent file. Keep the original video if you may need the sound again, or extract the audio first with an audio tool.

Why is the result not exactly the same quality?

Any re-encode loses a small amount of detail. The browser also chooses its own bitrate and codec settings, which you cannot tune from this page.

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