SoMud ( somud.com ) is a free P2P torrent client application equipped with many features, translated into several languages and with integrated torrent search. A torrent is a small file which contains information used for BitTorrent protocol to locate and download the actual big file or files over the Internet. A torrent file can be opened only with special applications that support BitTorrent protocol. SoMud is one of them. SoMud is very easy to use and its performance is excellent. SoMud automatically searches some of the most popular Torrent sites and aggregates the results. Using SoMud, people do not have to know any knowledge of P2P or BitTorrent. The search returns relevant results from the popular bittorrent trackers such as Btjunkie and PirateBay, and downloads start instantly. Download preview capability allows you to play media file while it is being downloaded. You can create your own Torrent for seeding - share your own files over P2P networks! You can adjust download/upload bandwidth limit for all tasks or for individual task. Other advanced features SoMud supports include: schedule tasks, look up for peer country and location, block specified peer or IP ranges, Magnet URI/Info-hash download, DHT protocol, router NAT/UPnP, Local service discovery, super seeding (initial seeding), web seeding, HTTP and UDP trackers, Sock5/HTTP proxy for connecting trackers, DHT networks and/or peers, private torrent, disk caching management, user commenting and rating, intelligent download splitting, mirror download URLs, failure retry mechanism, clipboard monitoring etc.

SoMud is not only a P2P BitTorrent client. SoMud is also a fast web video downloader which can search and download web videos from YouTube, Yahoo Videos, DailyMotion, LiveLeak and more other popular video sites. SoMud integrates the features of searching, downloading and playing your favourite web videos (with embedded player) seamlessly. So you can simply go ahead to download and play videos without worrying about installing other third-party media players. Compared with other web video downloader or YouTube downloader, SoMud provides intelligent multiple splitting support which greatly boosts video download speed.

SoMud does not just stop there. SoMud is equipped with some extra utilities: 1) a desktop video and audio recorder which is ideal for making tutorial and demo videos; this recorder allows you to record desktop or screen motion and audio into AVI file with just a few clicks; compared with some other screen motion recorders like camstudio, the recorder in SoMud has the capability of synchronizing recorded desktop video and audio in AVI, so recorded video and audio exactly match each other; with this recorder, you can also record any sound from PC or Mic into MP3; 2) a mass image downloader that can extract images from web pages and download them into your gallery; 3) a MP4/FLV player (ideal for playing web videos and Flash games); 4) a video and audio converter which allows you to convert audio or video formats with no hassle; 5) a MD5/SHA-1 hash checker that can be used to verify file integrity or compute file hash.

With SoMud, you can simply sit back and enjoy downloading files at very high speed in just a few clicks. SoMud is completely FREE and runs on both Windows and Mac OS as far as I know.