On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 07:56:28PM +0100, Eike wrote:

got German, English and Russian. If you'd like your favorite language to be included, it's as easy as translating the following 7 texts. For support of SD TV displays it would be good to have every line except the first two to be smaller than say 35 characters, if possible.

Full line texts

• "Permashift out of memory!"
• "Press key to continue permanent timeshift"

Short texts

• "Auto-buffer live TV"
• "Enable plugin"
• "Memory buffer size"
• "Buffer saving blocks rewind"

(This means that pressing rewind results first in saving of the whole buffer and rewinding has to wait for that time. To be honest, I found that hard to express that short even in my mother language...)

• "Maximum recording length (hours)"

Finnish:

"Permashiftin muisti on lopussa!" "Paina nappia jatkaaksesi pysyvää aikasiirtoa" "Puskuroi TV-lähetystä" "Ota liitännäinen käyttöön" "Muistipuskurin koko" "Buffer saving blocks rewind"??? "Pisin tallennusaika (tuntia)"

I find the English string ambiguous, as in "Verbing weirds language" or "Time flies like an arrow".

I guess that "blocks rewind" is verb+noun here, instead of noun+verb. If that is the case, I think that you should write "Buffer saving blocks rewinding" to make it more clear. Or maybe even: "Rewinding saves buffer first" (omitting "the" to keep it short).

Assuming that this is the intended meaning, I would suggest the following translation:

"Taaksepäin kelaus tallentaa puskurin ensin"

which is obviously too long for a short string. Maybe we can use the English word for the button name:

"Rewind tallentaa puskurin ensin"

or even a graphical symbol "<<" (ASCII) or "◀◀" (two U+25C0) in place of "Rewind". (I did not find any media-control characters in Unicode, except U+23CF EJECT SYMBOL.)

"◀◀ tallentaa puskurin ensin"

Maybe the same would work in other languages too:

"◀◀ saves the buffer first"

Best regards,

Marko

• "Buffer saving blocks rewind"

(This means that pressing rewind results first in saving of the whole buffer and rewinding has to wait for that time. To be honest, I found that hard to express that short even in my mother language...)

This definitely should be more clear... Something like:

"Save buffer before rewinding" "Rewind paused during buffer saves" "Rewinding waits until buffer is saved"