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Background noise, a private conversation, or music you have no rights to: sometimes the sound has to go. Strip the audio track from the whole video in a second, or mark just the moments to silence and keep the rest of the soundtrack intact.
Processing locally on your device
Overview
There are two ways to mute a video, and the tool offers both. Removing the audio deletes the soundtrack completely, so the file has no audio stream at all. Muting parts keeps the soundtrack but silences selected ranges, which is what you want for bleeping out a word, a name or a short stretch of copyrighted music while keeping speech elsewhere.
Removing the whole track is a stream copy: the video data is passed through unchanged and the audio is simply left out. It finishes in a second or two whatever the length, loses no quality, keeps the original container (MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV), and makes the file smaller, typically by 128–256 kbps of audio, about 1–2 MB per minute.
To mute parts, mark ranges on a thumbnail timeline. Drag the handles, nudge them with the arrow keys, set them from the playhead, or type exact times, and add as many ranges as you need. The preview goes silent inside the marked ranges so you can check them before exporting. The video is still copied untouched; only the audio is re-encoded (AAC at 192 kbps, or Opus for WebM) with the selected ranges set to zero volume, which takes seconds rather than minutes.
Processing uses FFmpeg compiled to WebAssembly, running on your own device. The first run downloads the engine (about 31 MB), after which it is cached and works offline. Before muting parts, the tool checks that the video actually has an audio track, and tells you if it is already silent.
| Whole video | Selected parts | |
|---|---|---|
| Result | No audio track | Audio with silent ranges |
| Video | Copied | Copied |
| Audio | Removed | Re-encoded (AAC or Opus) |
| Speed | Near-instant | Seconds |
| File size | Smaller | About the same |
Drop in your video.
Choose Whole video to remove the audio, or Selected parts to mute ranges.
For parts: drag the handles on the timeline, and press Add for more ranges.
Play the video to hear the muted ranges in the preview.
Click the mute button, then preview and download the result.
Use cases
Website hero videos, presentation backgrounds and product loops often autoplay muted anyway. Removing the track makes the file smaller and guarantees silence.
Silence a swear word, a name, a phone number or an address in a vlog or recording without losing the rest of the conversation.
Mute the stretch where a radio or a shop played a song in the background, so a platform’s copyright system does not block the upload.
Strip the original sound before adding a voice-over or music track in another app, or use the Add Music tool to replace it directly.
Pro tips
Answers to common questions about the video muter.
No. In both modes the video stream is copied bit for bit. Removing the audio copies everything else too; muting parts re-encodes only the audio, at 192 kbps AAC, which sounds the same as the original for nearly all material.
Silent. The audio volume is set to zero for the duration of each range. Everything outside the ranges plays as before.
Removing the audio saves exactly the size of the audio track, usually about 1–2 MB per minute for typical 128–256 kbps sound. Muting ranges keeps the track, so the size stays about the same.
Some recordings, screen captures and exported clips have no audio stream at all. Those videos are already silent, so there is nothing to mute in them.
Yes. Overlapping or touching ranges are simply silenced together, and you can remove any range from the list.
No. ToolEnhancer processes files on your own device inside the browser. They are never sent to, stored on or seen by our servers.
Yes. The video muter is free to use with no sign-up, no watermarks and no daily limits.