Defcon Radio

[Xodia]

Re: Defcon Radio

Stop by the contest/events area, Darkcreature. Everyone is overthinking this a bit, lol. Shoutcast streaming isn't really rocket science. We never set out to stream talks, as that would be stepping on the toes of the Defcon media archive. This is all purely supplementary material for people at the con, and a fun place for people to have value added discussion.

All will make sense once you get there.

[HighWiz]

Re: Defcon Radio

As for the fucktard comment I can guarantee there will be no tard fucking being attempted. Well unless I have a drunken encounter with Corky Thatcher that ill regret when I wake up in the morning, seriously if someone shares a brain storm on a forum of how easy it would be to do something and how easy the logistics of it could be, it seems like everyone assumes they are going to do it. There are idiots out there = FACT. But you'd think ideas would be encouraged in a hacker culture just not the implementation of said ideas... like always.........

Sorry had to get it off my chest. About DEFCAST, I love the name but my question is this late in the game if someone isn't set up to stream all of them already. It would take a couple more servers and laptops to broadcast them out to the world. You think it can happen or have any more resources? I think hosting will be an easy thing to come up with but the stream broadcasting units might be a bitch unless someone has a pallet of Eee PC's laying around.

If you really want to know something... Contact the people who are running DefCon Radio (like Xodia), directly.. If you did, you would know that they are good to go, last I heard (mobile units, mics, servers, network stuff from locks team, etc...). They start broadcasting on Thursday. Do a little leg work next time instead of just posting to the forum and expecting people to come to you, especially when it's a few days before Con and everyone is busy getting all their shit in order.

[astcell]

Re: Defcon Radio

Defcast is a Symantec app.

[darkcreature]

Re: Defcon Radio

Coming in late, apologies in advance.

Two observations:

1. Do NOT be a fucktard and announce your intention to operate a pirate radio station, location known, date/time known, in advance. DO NOT show up at the Rio havin' (already) announced your intent and likely attracted the Fox Chicken^2 and carry through. We simply do not need the attention or the distraction of dealing with it.


2. Streaming out on the net sounds really cool. Cooler would be streaming all the talks (all tracks) (audio at least) live, but it needs a name.


DEFCAST sounds right to me......





WB

As for the fucktard comment I can guarantee there will be no tard fucking being attempted. Well unless I have a drunken encounter with Corky Thatcher that ill regret when I wake up in the morning, seriously if someone shares a brain storm on a forum of how easy it would be to do something and how easy the logistics of it could be, it seems like everyone assumes they are going to do it. There are idiots out there = FACT. But you'd think ideas would be encouraged in a hacker culture just not the implementation of said ideas... like always.........

Sorry had to get it off my chest. About DEFCAST, I love the name but my question is this late in the game if someone isn't set up to stream all of them already. It would take a couple more servers and laptops to broadcast them out to the world. You think it can happen or have any more resources? I think hosting will be an easy thing to come up with but the stream broadcasting units might be a bitch unless someone has a pallet of Eee PC's laying around.

[Whiteb0rd]

Re: Defcon Radio

bump? is it officially stale now?

Coming in late, apologies in advance.

Two observations:

1. Do NOT be a fucktard and announce your intention to operate a pirate radio station, location known, date/time known, in advance. DO NOT show up at the Rio havin' (already) announced your intent and likely attracted the Fox Chicken^2 and carry through. We simply do not need the attention or the distraction of dealing with it.


2. Streaming out on the net sounds really cool. Cooler would be streaming all the talks (all tracks) (audio at least) live, but it needs a name.


DEFCAST sounds right to me......





WB

[darkcreature]

Re: Defcon Radio

my bad... guess I was used to other forms, fail! anyway there is a icecast sever waiting for any DC media that needs streamed to the masses.

[HighWiz]

Re: Defcon Radio

bump? is it officially stale now?

FYI: https://forum.defcon.org/showthread....hlight=bump-up

[darkcreature]

Re: Defcon Radio

bump? is it officially stale now?

[darkcreature]

Re: Defcon Radio

laptop, a mixer, a mic and a usb sound card with decent inputs on it should do the magic, ive got a creative usb sound card and a roland mixer with a mic if hes having a hard time getting it to work. Ive done simulcasts before, ie live dj sets and web streaming so if he needs any help, im down to offer input or gear.

[dmz]

Re: Defcon Radio

We'll have to wait for Xodia to reply. I use to run the radio and he has offered to step up for it. He mentioned he had equipment and was testing.

We have a few weeks left so lets see how it goes.

dmz

[darkcreature]

Re: Defcon Radio

The inbound stream will most likely be 128K, outbound depends on how many streams you want to have. Years past when I did the radio I had at times around 100 listeners. The biggest issue is when the hotel or provider I was using got spoofed & net went down. Listeners give up quickly if it's not consistent.

I'm sure we could have 1k or more listeners and figure a couple of different data-centers with 10 or 100M links would be more than enough to handle anything that goes out.

My server has a 7 meg connection up and down that’s doing nothing at the moment, I have icecast running on it from some old bay area rave streams that’s since gotten no usage. i'm guessing that server could stream 50 or so connections depending on the output stream size. I’ve never had any issues with the bandwidth where its hosted or power issues. it’s been up for the last 7 years. I know it’s not a huge amount of bandwidth but it’s not like a cable or dsl connection. If anyone starts this I’d be glad to donate resources to it....... For the greater good!

[dmz]

Re: Defcon Radio

The inbound stream will most likely be 128K, outbound depends on how many streams you want to have. Years past when I did the radio I had at times around 100 listeners. The biggest issue is when the hotel or provider I was using got spoofed & net went down. Listeners give up quickly if it's not consistent.

I'm sure we could have 1k or more listeners and figure a couple of different data-centers with 10 or 100M links would be more than enough to handle anything that goes out.

[darkcreature]

Re: Defcon Radio

From what I understand the radio will be available as a stream. If anyone happens to take that stream and make it available through other means, it is beyond the control of those running the radio.

Do you have any idea what the server bandwidth requirements would be on a icecast server? I've got a server in colo that could feed a good chunk of streams. I don't know if its been done before @ DC and what the listener base is.

[dmz]

Re: Defcon Radio

From what I understand the radio will be available as a stream. If anyone happens to take that stream and make it available through other means, it is beyond the control of those running the radio.

[darkcreature]

Re: Defcon Radio

Only reason said associate has such a device is in case of a rampant zombie attack happens and they need to make a call out for help. think i should remove the post?