# \&novideo

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

* `&nv`
* `&hidevideo`
* [`&showonly`](/advanced-settings/video-parameters/novideo.md)

## Details

`&novideo` disables all video playback on the local computer. Useful for reducing the CPU and network load on other connect peers if voice-chat is sufficient.

* Join a group-room as audio-only, to limit load on the guests.

When used together with [`&noaudio`](/advanced-settings/audio-parameters/noaudio.md) (`&novideo&noaudio`), prevents guest room member from seeing or hearing other member's audio or video feeds.

* Useful for directors who may wish to only issue commands or text chat, but not need to see video or audio.

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

Video tracks are blocked and do not form any connection when using peer-to-peer, not taking up bandwidth or system load, but they also cannot be re-enabled without reconnecting. Video tracks from WHIP-based sources, Iframes, or some non-standard sources may still allow video tracks to connect, using up bandwidth, but will not be rendered. Check the connection stats for that stream ID to confirm.

Use [`&broadcast`](/advanced-settings/video-parameters/broadcast.md) or [`&showonly`](/advanced-settings/video-parameters/novideo.md) if you want to disable all videos except any stream IDs listed.

## Related

{% content-ref url="/pages/-MZdv52PtnHDk7GZwLzQ" %}
[\&noaudio](/advanced-settings/audio-parameters/noaudio.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="/pages/YFV31tJpFiYQNrRuQupG" %}
[\&showonly](/advanced-settings/video-parameters/novideo.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="/pages/FOvmYCAGTf6ZgCfllwlD" %}
[\&nodirectorvideo](/advanced-settings/video-parameters/and-nodirectorvideo.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}


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