All prebuilt tools DETECT SILENCE AUDIO API

Detect Silence in Audio or Video

List silent passages with start, end and duration for chaptering, cut planning or ad-break placement, without editing anything. Run the preset directly on this page or call the same agent-ready endpoint from your product.

Run this tool View API recipe

LIVE TOOL

Run detect silence

Drop a video, adjust the defaults if you need to, and download the result here.

BEFORE / AFTER

See what the tool changes.

A real example: the after side is the unedited output of a KinoPipe job. Run the live form above to generate the same result from your own media.

BeforeSource video

WebM · VP9

mountain.webm

AfterCompatible MP4

Ready

MP4 · H.264

mountain.mp4

Demo footage: public-domain timelapses (Bureau of Land Management, Oregon · NASA SVS). Processed by the same pipeline the API and MCP tools call.

BUILT FOR AUTOMATION

Useful defaults, typed options.

The tool slug stays stable while your agent supplies named media inputs and a narrow set of documented options.

No encode, analysis only
Threshold and minimum duration control
Pairs with remove-silence

What this preset does

01Decode the audio track
02Scan against the silence threshold
03Group passages above the minimum duration
04Return them as JSON

Stable endpointPOST /api/v1/tools/detect-silence

Live API request

SYNCED WITH FORM

{
  "inputs": [{ "id": "main", "url": "https://example.com/podcast.mp3" }],
  "options": { "threshold": -35, "min_silence": 1 }
}

Successful output example

{
  "result": {
    "output": {
      "filename": "detect-silence-output.mp4",
      "contentType": "video/mp4",
      "byteSize": 437021,
      "downloadUrl": "https://cdn.kinopipe.com/…"
    }
  }
}

CONSTRAINTS