Remove Audio from Video
Mute a video by taking its audio track out of the file. Drop an MP4 or MOV, check what the page found in it, and download a copy with no sound. The picture is copied as it is, so it loses no quality, and the video never leaves your device.
Drop your video here or click to browse
MP4, M4V or MOV, up to 4 GB.
The video is rewritten in your browser and is not uploaded.
How to remove audio from a video
Three steps, all in your browser.
- 1
Drop the video
Pick an MP4, M4V or MOV file up to 4 GB. The page reads the file's index, not the whole video, and lists its length, the picture format and every audio track it found.
- 2
Press Remove audio
The page writes a new file that holds the picture and nothing of the sound. The audio tracks are left out and the video data is copied across unchanged, so even a long video is usually done in seconds.
- 3
Check and download
Play the preview to confirm the video is silent, then download it. The new file has the same name with -no-audio added, and the page shows how much smaller it is.
What "no re-encoding" means
Most editors mute a video by decoding it and compressing it again. This tool only rewrites the container around the video.
The picture is unchanged
Every video frame in the new file is the same bytes as in the original. Resolution, frame rate, bitrate and colour stay as they were, because nothing is decoded or compressed again.
It is fast
Re-encoding an hour of video can take longer than watching it. Copying takes as long as your device needs to read the file, and a phone or an old laptop can do it.
The file gets a little smaller
Only the sound goes, and sound is a small part of most videos: at 128 kbps it is about 0.9 MB for every minute. Expect the file to shrink by a few percent, not by half.
What works and what does not
The tool rewrites MP4 and QuickTime files. It checks the file first and refuses anything it cannot rewrite correctly, with a message that says why.
| File | Works? | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| MP4 and M4V from phones, cameras, editors and meeting apps | Yes | Drop it in. H.264, HEVC and other picture formats all work, since the picture is not decoded. |
| MOV from an iPhone, a Mac or a camera | Yes | Drop it in. Timecode and metadata tracks are kept. |
| Videos with several audio tracks | Yes | All audio tracks are removed. |
| Fragmented MP4 from some screen recorders and stream downloads | No | Export it as a regular MP4 from a video editor or converter app, then try again. |
| WebM and MKV | No | Convert the video to MP4 first, or switch the sound off when you export it. |
| AVI, WMV and other older formats | No | Convert the video to MP4 first. |
| Copy-protected videos from a store | No | These cannot be rewritten. |
| A recording that was cut off and will not play | No | The file has no index, so there is nothing to rewrite. |
Muting a video and removing its audio are different
Both give you a video you cannot hear. Only one of them takes the sound out of the file.
Muted in a player or an app
Turning the volume to zero, or tapping the speaker icon before you post, changes how the video plays. Depending on the app, the file you share can still carry the sound.
A silent track
Some editors replace the sound with silence. The video still has an audio track, players still show a volume control, and the file is no smaller.
No audio track at all
This tool writes a file without any audio track. The background conversation, the music or the wind noise is not in the file any more, so nobody can turn it back up.
What else changes in the file, and what does not
Tracks that are not sound are kept: the picture, and any timecode, subtitle or metadata tracks. Edit lists, the creation date and other details stored in the video's header are copied as they are. That includes location data if your camera saved it, so removing the audio does not make a video anonymous.
The new file is written with its index at the front, which lets a web page start playing it before it has fully loaded. Unused padding from the original is not copied. The length shown by a player stays what the original file said.
Need the opposite: the sound without the picture?
Other tools on this site keep the audio and drop the video.
A small file to listen to or send
The MP4 to MP3 and MOV to MP3 converters save the sound track of a video as an MP3.
Sound for editing
The MP4 to WAV converter saves it uncompressed, for an audio editor or a transcription tool.
Any other video format
The Video to Audio Converter takes WebM and MKV as well, and gives you MP3 or WAV.
Your video stays on your device
The file is opened by your browser and rewritten on your own computer or phone. It is not sent to a server, so a video of your home, your children or a client's site is seen by no one else. The page loads the site's analytics, which count events such as a file being chosen, its extension and a rough size class. The video, its name and its contents are never sent.
When it is the sound you want to keep
This tool throws the audio away. If what you need from a meeting, a call or a voice note is what was said, ParrotNotes records it on your phone and turns it into a transcript and a summary.
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