Remove the Sound From a Video

Removing is not the same as silencing

Turning the volume down, or muting a player, leaves the audio in the file, and anyone who receives it can turn it back up. This removes the track, so the sound is genuinely not there any more.

That distinction is the whole point for most people who need it: a conversation in the background, a television in the room, a name said out loud, or a copyrighted song that will get the clip taken down.

The picture is untouched

The video stream is copied across without being decoded, so the frames in the result are bit-for-bit the ones you started with. There is no quality cost and no re-encoding, which is also why it takes a second or two rather than minutes.

It will not make the file much smaller

Audio is usually a small share of a video's size, often between 5 and 10 percent. If size is what you are after, compressing the video is the tool that moves the number. This one is for privacy and for platform rules.

Platforms that listen to your audio

Most large video platforms scan uploads against a database of copyrighted recordings, and a few seconds of music playing in the background is enough to trigger a claim. Removing the track first avoids the whole process — and because the file never leaves your device to have it removed, there is no copy of the original, audio intact, sitting on somebody else's server.