I have a video capture device, the kind that records the HDMI output to a flash drive, but maybe because it's not very good, sometimes the videos get corrupted and I can't use them in video editing applications...

Just a quick reminder, If you need the best ratio with different file compression software:

# 7z
7z a -t7z -m0=lzma -mx=9 -mfb=64 -md=32m -ms=on file_compressed.7z file_input
# tar.gz
env GZIP=-9 tar cvzf file_compressed.tar.gz file_input
# zip
zip -9 file_compressed.zip file_input
# rar
rar a -idq -r -y -m5 file_compressed.rar file_input
# Gzip
gzip -9 file_input

Well, today, the 31st, believe it or not, I'm working and my wife has been into hospital a few days, but everything is fine now. I hope to have time next year to update the blog more and generate more personal content. I didn't want to leave the year without greeting you. I hope you have a good end and begin of the year, wherever you are.

I haven't updated the blog in a while. I'm not going to apologize, you know how it is. I haven't been bored, but my Pi has gone into the background and I need time for other stuff... but opened a channel on the new social network MeWe called Raspberry Pi en Español and I intend to continue writting from there along with whoever wants, news about our beloved Pi.

Well, you've seen little activity around here lately. I hope to pick up the momentum but with everything I'm carrying right now, it's very difficult for me to update the blog. I'll drop by from time to time to post a few news items. In fact, next week I'm having a news cocktail as usual. I can only wish you a happy holiday and if you want to tell me something, what are you waiting for? 😛

Well, that's the message you get when we haven't updated our blog in a while. I am overwhelmed in every way: new house, new projects, new work...

This morning I got up and set up the blog to finally make it secure, so it will now be accessible using SSL. You can update your bookmarks to while I make some changes here. If you see anything unusual, please send me an email or leave a comment below.

Well, even if I still don't have the blog adapted for lack of time as usual to use the secure protection layer or SSL, many of us have had to inform our users of what we do with the data we store. In my case, I don't store any information about my users other than Google Analytics to see how many people enter on this blog and from where. For now I've disabled it because I don't know if I should do anything else on the blog in order to have it (anyway, it's always blocked by the adblockerks we all use and I never know for sure if it's true).

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