gst-launch-1.0 warnt vor Großbuchstaben

[René Maseli]

A term in a warning text printed by the program gst-launch-1.0 of the package gstreamer1.0 is mistranslated in german. This appeared on bionic and focal, possibly earlier.
The following example uses 'ximagesrc', 'video/mpeg' and 'ximagesink', but this issue is not specific to those elements. One command with two output variants, one with en_US, the other with de_DE.

gst-launch-1.0 ximagesrc ! video/mpeg ! ximagesink

WARNING: erroneous pipeline: could not link ximagesrc0 to ximagesink0, neither element can handle caps video/mpeg

WARNUNG: Fehlerhafte Leitung: ximagesrc0 konnte nicht mit ximagesink0 verknüpft werden. Keines der Elemente kann mit Großbuchstaben video/mpeg umgehen

Here, "caps" is translated to "Großbuchstaben" ("capital letter"), where it means the program-specific term "capabilities".

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Can you please explain - in English! - what makes you conclude that this is a translation issue? Does the tool work without warnings if you run it in e.g. an English session?

[René Maseli (rene-maseli)]

Thank you for your response. I suppose this issue belongs to some german-specific list.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Thanks, that clarifies it. No, this is the right place to report an incorrect translation, and I have assigned the bug to the Ubuntu German Translators team.

[Dennis Baudys (thecondordb)]

I've just corrected the German translation here:
https://translations.launchpad.net/gstreamer1.0

However, upstream is not informed about it yet.

[Christian Kirbach (christian-kirbach-e)]

René, thanks a lot for reporting.

I am frustrated that Ubuntu did not push this fix upstream to me.

I grabbed and imported the fixes so that anyone benefits.

[Torsten Franz (torsten.franz)]

Thank you Christian.

I see it sometimes that it is difficult for some translators to see where upstream is. I would have thought that it would be here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer

Can you please link where it is fixed so that we can learn?

[Christian Kirbach (christian-kirbach-e)]

Hello

https://translationproject.org/domain/gstreamer.html
ist the place to go.