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Remove Audio from Video

Strip the sound from a video, or pull the audio out as a separate file — both without re-encoding.

Runs in your browser. Nothing you add is uploaded.

What the Remove Audio from Video does

Muting a video is one of those jobs that sounds trivial and usually is not — most tools re-encode the whole file to drop a track that could simply have been left out. Removing an audio stream requires no re-encoding at all, so this finishes in seconds and the video comes back with its picture completely untouched.

How to remove audio from a video

  1. Choose what you want: remove the audio from the video, or extract that audio as a separate file.
  2. Upload the video — it previews immediately, so you can confirm it is the right one.
  3. Press the button. The first run downloads the engine (about 32MB, once per browser).
  4. The result downloads automatically. Your original file is unchanged.

The Remove Audio from Video runs entirely in your browser — nothing you enter is uploaded, stored, or logged.

When to use it

Silencing background noise or conversation

Footage where the picture is fine but the audio has someone talking over it. Removing the track entirely is cleaner than trying to edit around it.

Preparing video for a soundtrack

Stripping the original audio before adding music avoids the two tracks fighting each other in an editor.

Pulling audio out of a recording

Extract mode gives you the audio at its original bitrate — useful for turning a recorded talk or interview into something you can listen to or transcribe.

Good to know

  • Both modes are stream copies, so neither the video nor the extracted audio is re-encoded.
  • Extraction produces .m4a because that is what most video files already carry internally; converting to MP3 would mean re-encoding and losing quality.
  • If the tool reports no audio track, the file is already silent — nothing to remove.
  • The engine is shared with the video cutter, so if you have used that already, this starts immediately.

Frequently asked questions

Will the video quality change?

No. The video stream is copied untouched; only the audio track is dropped.

Will removing the audio reduce video quality?

No. The video stream is copied across untouched and only the audio track is left out. The result is bit-identical picture, in a slightly smaller file.

Why is the extracted audio .m4a rather than .mp3?

Because most video files already contain AAC audio, and .m4a is the container for it — so the audio can be copied out with no quality loss at all. Producing MP3 would mean decoding and re-encoding, which would be slower and measurably worse.

Can I lower the volume instead of removing it?

Not here. Changing volume means re-encoding the audio, which is a different operation with different trade-offs. This tool is deliberately limited to the two things that can be done losslessly.

Is my video uploaded?

No. Everything runs in your browser via WebAssembly and nothing is transmitted, which matters given how often the videos people want to mute are personal.

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