ffmpeg how to remove audio from a video

Written by John Riselvato - original link

Although this next command isn’t exactly a filter, it’s still useful to know how to remove or mute, audio in an MP4.

Below is the quickest way to remove audio from any form of video using the ​-an​ option:

$ ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -an -vcodec copy output.mp4

**Tip:**​ ​-an​ indicates no audio output.

Documentation https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html#Examples