How many computers for one license?

[FirstCavWife]

I have a laptop and desktop (networked) and want to put BTV3 on both computers. Do I have to purchase two licenses or will one do it?
-Dawn

[Brett]

You need to purchase 2. Otherwise you can only have one Snapstream.Net account which provides the guide data / remote recordings / etc.. But if the laptop does not have a tuner you could just stream it wireless from BTV on your desktop, its relatively easy to setup through the webgui. In that case you would only need 1.

-Brett

[Mobuj]

RadioActive
I see in your tagline the description of having an APG and a PCI video card in one computer (assuming I read that correctly). I was told by ATI that they do not support having 2 cards on one system. If you are able to do this then what's your secret! And, are both video cards All-In-Wonder?
Any info would be great.

[Brett]

You read correctly AGP and PCI.

Below is some of my personal advise but you can find more information on the following forum:
http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon...&tmpl=UltraMon

They also have a program called UltraMon that helps manage multiple monitors so that programs open in the correct window, but its not neccessary to actually get the cards to work.

So...

If ATI told you they did not support this, its because they did not want to have to deal with people who have issues / conflicts. I have several systems setup in a similar fashion. The trick is that you need to log on the bios and set in the bios the primary card to be PCI not AGP. This will "turn on" the PCI card so that it works, otherwise it will fail to initilize.

You can have as many additional PCI cards as you want. I suggest though you stay with the same manufactor to avoid conflicts. (IE pair of ATIs, or pair of NVIDIAs)

Now if they were the AIW, two of these together may cause problems, as the tuner drivers on the AIW absolutely are terrible and may conflict. My old roomie though could get a single AIW to work with additional standard Radeon card without a hitch.

You can do some pretty creative stuff with the setup. For example I have a Radeon 9800 Pro that has triple outputs it has one DVI to a flat panel, a CRT to another flat panel, and the SVideo to the TVs. The cards however can not display more than two seperate outputs so the CRT on the flat panel clones the TV output. I then added a Radeon 9100 Pro which has a DVI output ot the second input on the flat panel. Now by simple pressing the monitors input selection I can go from an expanded desktop to a single desktop on the left, and BeyondTV on the right.

The setup sounds a lot more complicated than it really is...

If you have any problems I will be glad to help get you up and running, but please understand conflicts can still occur even though I myself have not experienced any, so it may ultimately be impratical for your system to support this, maybe due to bios issues or something...

-Brett