How do I mute videos by default in MPV

Question

I always use mpv media player to play media files (video/audio).
But I want that "whenever I open a video/audio through MPV, it should be by default mute".
I tried to add cycle mute to the last line of input.conf file.
But it didn't work.

Answer 1

Edit configuration file:

~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf

And add line:

mute=yes

Now each time You start a video it will be muted by default.

Answer 2

You have

"audio" : "no" or "mute" : 'yes'

as options. Working with the audio option I experienced several times that it could not be "turned on" again while the video was playing. So try the "mute" option first.

See here for the documentation.