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It's great that downloading vlc media player is 2-3 clicks away when you're in the main website. Too bad that's not the case when you try to get the python bindings. At least it's not that obvious. After digging about half an hour I found this http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=hi ... ngs/python
This may sound silly but I still don't know how to download the whole git tree, and not a file at a time.

Yes I'm not an advanced git user, or vlc developer. I don't know the exact link to the bindings/python git tree. And I expect to find that link somewhere here http://wiki.videolan.org/Python_bindings

I finally got the tree from another site and hit another stone. No "INSTALL" file or build instructions in the README

Is it meant to be that hard?

So you want to download VLC latest trunk from the git repository? Have a look here:
http://wiki.videolan.org/Git

Arite.

Yep, just figured that out. Actually bindings/python is part of the main git tree which is odd considering the fact that those bindings are not included in the source tarball available for download here http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-sources.html. So if one has to download the bindings only he has to go through the whole ~100MB tree (unless there is some magic git parameter that noob users have never heard of)

My point is that users like me just need to download sth. from the site (required dependency for other stuff) and go on with their life without the requirement to spend hours reading all pages to find the download. You can imagine if you have to download 10-15 thing like this

Just an opinion of a user that visits the site for the very first time - too complex and unintuitive

Well, you have a point. We are welcoming your help