Mute videos online

Muting videos, simply explained

The tool drops the audio track and keeps the picture: no sound is kept, and no silence track is added in its place, so the result simply has no audio track. When the clip is already in the format you pick — an MP4 saved as MP4, or a WebM saved as WebM — the picture is copied untouched, with no loss of quality; any other combination re-encodes the picture at the same quality as a conversion, with odd dimensions rounded down to even numbers, so the muted clip plays everywhere. A rotation tag is preserved when the picture is copied and baked into the pixels when it is re-encoded. Subtitle tracks are not carried over, and chapters are dropped, while the clip's general file information — such as a title or location, where the file has any — is kept. A clip without sound mutes the same way, with no audio track added and no error: the result is just the picture, as before. There is no sound to re-encode, so unlike tools that keep sound, muting never refuses a clip for its sound — stereo and surround clips mute as MP4 or WebM alike. The result is named after the original clip, with -muted added. Everything runs on your device, which keeps your videos private but means speed depends on your device — short clips finish quickly, while long videos can take a very long time, so this tool is best for short clips.