1Upload the MKV videos whose soundtrack you want gone.
2Confirm that you want the audio track dropped entirely rather than turned down to silence.
3Run it; the audio track is removed and the picture is copied through untouched.
4Download the silent MKV file, which is also smaller than what you started with.
Mute MKV FAQ
Anything specific to MKV worth knowing?
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Yes — MKV places no restriction on what is inside it, so an edit has to carry every audio, subtitle and chapter track across rather than assuming one of each. Relevant when the source has more than one audio track.
Should I mute or just silence the audio?
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Mute. A silent track still occupies bitrate and still has to be decoded by the player; dropping it makes the file smaller and removes any chance of it being unmuted downstream.
How does Mute MKV remove the sound?
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Concretely, the audio track is dropped from the container and the video is copied without re-encoding, so the picture is identical to the source. The result is the same picture with no audio track at all, rather than an audio track turned down to zero.
Is the video re-encoded when I mute it?
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No. Removing a track is a container operation, so the video stream is copied bit-identically and is not re-encoded, however long the clip is.
Does Mute MKV cost anything?
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No. Mute MKV is free without an account, and the output has no watermark, corner logo or intro card. The upload and the result are deleted automatically about 24 hours after the job, which leaves time to download the result.
What can I upload to Mute MKV?
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MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI, WMV, FLV, 3GP, M4V, MPEG and MPG. The container and codec are probed before anything runs, so a mixed batch is handled correctly per file rather than assumed to be uniform.
Is there a file size limit on Mute MKV?
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Yes: free accounts process video up to 40 MB per file, by far the most generous cap on the site; ffmpeg with x264, x265 and libvpx does the work, which is the same toolchain behind most desktop video software. Video is the one family where the cap is high enough that upload time, not the limit, is what you will actually notice.
Why does a MP3 site host Mute MKV?
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MP3.to is built around the format that made portable audio ordinary: universally playable, small enough to ignore, and lossy in a way that only matters if you keep re-encoding it. Audio jobs cluster: the same person who needs a format changed usually needs the file cut, levelled or made smaller in the same sitting. Putting Mute MKV behind the same upload, the same caps and the same account is what turns three tabs into one.
What should I do with the result once Mute MKV is finished?
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The converter on this site moves audio between MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A, OGG and Opus, so the output format is a decision you can leave until the end rather than commit to at the start. Doing that after Mute MKV rather than before means the encode happens once, on the file you actually settled on, instead of twice.
Is Mute MKV here the same tool the sibling sites run?
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The engines are shared — the same ffmpeg build, the same workers, the same limits. What a MP3 site adds is a point of view about bitrates, about what survives an encode and about when a lossless intermediate is worth the upload time. It also starts from one fact about the format this site is named after: MP3 frames are fixed-size blocks, so a cut lands on a frame boundary and gapless playback markers do not survive a re-encode.
Do I need an account, and does anything get kept?
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No account is needed. Uploads and results are kept for about 24 hours, which leaves time to download the result, and are then deleted automatically; nobody reads, lists or indexes them. Several files in one job need a paid plan.
