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# \&noaudio

Delivers video only streams; audio playback is disabled

Viewer-Side Option! ([`&view`](/advanced-settings/mixer-scene-parameters/view.md), [`&scene`](/advanced-settings/mixer-scene-parameters/scene.md), [`&room`](/advanced-settings/setup-parameters/room.md))

## Aliases

* `&na`
* `&hideaudio`

## Details

Delivers video only streams; audio playback is disabled for all incoming streams. `&noaudio` also hides the speaker button.

**WHEP compatibility:** Avoid `&noaudio` on links that play media through WHEP. Many WHIP/WHEP SFU servers expect the viewer to accept both the audio and video tracks and cannot send only one of them. Preventing the audio track from connecting can therefore cause the entire WHEP playback link to fail. If you need silent WHEP playback, use [`&mutespeaker`](/advanced-settings/audio-parameters/and-mutespeaker.md) instead; the audio track can still arrive while local speaker output stays muted.

You can pass a comma separated list of stream IDs that will be excluded, so that they specifically will play audio. `?noaudio=guest1a,guest2a` will only allow audio from guest1a and guest2a to play

External Iframes may or may not be muted by default if using \&noaudio. While I try to mute frames when possible, like embedded Youtube videos, there may be still some Iframe sources I cannot mute.

`&exludeaudio` can also be used to specify certain stream IDs that will NOT play audio, so the inverse of `&noaudio`

If you want to be able to unmute the speaker button during production, use [`&mutespeaker`](/advanced-settings/audio-parameters/and-mutespeaker.md) instead of `&noaudio`.

[`&deafen`](/advanced-settings/audio-parameters/deafen.md) also disables monitoring your own audio, then it's impossible to get any sound from VDO.Ninja.

## Related

{% content-ref url="/pages/enz7ObKV31MwGZ0u5lhu" %}
[\&nodirectoraudio](/advanced-settings/audio-parameters/and-nodirectoraudio.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="/pages/-MZXS6tQVhZ77NUQcNW\_" %}
[\&mutespeaker](/advanced-settings/audio-parameters/and-mutespeaker.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="/pages/-MZXOWiPbPR2lV\_8kkZM" %}
[\&deafen](/advanced-settings/audio-parameters/deafen.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="/pages/-MZdvKE9pMsUmZQAfpPu" %}
[\&novideo](/advanced-settings/video-parameters/and-novideo.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}


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