diff --git a/po/de.po b/po/de.po
index 1aa3e56955..3a49156332 100644
--- a/po/de.po
+++ b/po/de.po
@@ -1,10 +1,28 @@
+# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
+# Copyright (C) YEAR GStreamer core team
+# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.
+# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
+#
+#, fuzzy
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: gstreamer-0.7 0.7.0.1\n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \"http://bugzilla.gnome.org\"\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2003-10-08 15:36-0700\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: 2003-10-08 15:36-0700\n"
+"Last-Translator: David Schleef <ds@schleef.org>\n"
+"Language-Team: Gnome Translators <i18n@gnome.org>\n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+
 #: gst/gst.c:113
 msgid "Print the GStreamer version"
 msgstr "druck die GStreamer Version"
 
 #: gst/gst.c:114
 msgid "Make all warnings fatal"
-msgstr "macht alle Achtunge tdlchc"
+msgstr "macht alle Achtunge toedlich"
 
 #: gst/gst.c:116
 msgid ""
@@ -12,7 +30,10 @@ msgid ""
 msgstr ""
 
 #: gst/gst.c:117
-msgid "colon-seperated list of category=name pairs to use specific levels"
+msgid ""
+"colon-seperated list of category_name=level pairs to set specific levels for "
+"the individual categories.\n"
+"Example:GST_AUTOPLUG=5:GST_ELEMENT_*=3"
 msgstr ""
 
 #: gst/gst.c:118
@@ -61,6 +82,5 @@ msgstr ""
 msgid "registry to use"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: gst/gst.c:208
-msgid "This is a test\n"
-msgstr "moo\n"
+#~ msgid "This is a test\n"
+#~ msgstr "moo\n"
diff --git a/po/gstreamer-0.7.pot b/po/gstreamer-0.7.pot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ef8951c548
--- /dev/null
+++ b/po/gstreamer-0.7.pot
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
+# Copyright (C) YEAR GStreamer core team
+# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.
+# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
+#
+#, fuzzy
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \"http://bugzilla.gnome.org\"\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2003-10-08 16:20-0700\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
+"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
+"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+
+#: gst/gst.c:113
+msgid "Print the GStreamer version"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: gst/gst.c:114
+msgid "Make all warnings fatal"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: gst/gst.c:116
+msgid ""
+"default debug level from 1 (only error) to 5 (anything) or 0 for no output"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: gst/gst.c:117
+msgid ""
+"colon-seperated list of category_name=level pairs to set specific levels for "
+"the individual categories.\n"
+"Example:GST_AUTOPLUG=5:GST_ELEMENT_*=3"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: gst/gst.c:118
+msgid "disable color debugging output"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: gst/gst.c:119
+msgid "disable debugging"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: gst/gst.c:120
+msgid "print available debug categories and exit"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: gst/gst.c:122
+msgid "Disable accelerated CPU instructions"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: gst/gst.c:123
+msgid "enable verbose plugin loading diagnostics"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: gst/gst.c:124
+msgid "'"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: gst/gst.c:124
+msgid "'--separated path list for loading plugins"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: gst/gst.c:125
+msgid ""
+"comma-separated list of plugins to preload in addition to the list stored in "
+"env variable GST_PLUGIN_PATH"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: gst/gst.c:126
+msgid "scheduler to use ('"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: gst/gst.c:126
+msgid "' is the default)"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: gst/gst.c:127
+msgid "registry to use"
+msgstr ""
diff --git a/po/remove-potcdate.sin b/po/remove-potcdate.sin
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2436c49e78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/po/remove-potcdate.sin
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# Sed script that remove the POT-Creation-Date line in the header entry
+# from a POT file.
+#
+# The distinction between the first and the following occurrences of the
+# pattern is achieved by looking at the hold space.
+/^"POT-Creation-Date: .*"$/{
+x
+# Test if the hold space is empty.
+s/P/P/
+ta
+# Yes it was empty. First occurrence. Remove the line.
+g
+d
+bb
+:a
+# The hold space was nonempty. Following occurrences. Do nothing.
+x
+:b
+}