Patent ID: 8754922

Claim:
A method for videoconferencing supporting a plurality of videoconferencing streams, the method comprising: in a videoconferencing device having a single decoder, utilizing the videoconferencing device to perform: receiving the plurality of videoconferencing streams at the videoconferencing device; providing a first videoconferencing stream of the received plurality of videoconferencing streams to a single decoder of the videoconferencing device; decoding, by the single decoder, the first videoconferencing stream in response to said providing the first videoconferencing stream to the single decoder, wherein the single decoder decodes not more than one videoconferencing stream at a time; receiving user input selecting, for decoding, a second videoconferencing stream of the received plurality of video conferencing streams, wherein the second videoconferencing stream is not the first videoconferencing stream; in response to said user input, providing the second videoconferencing stream of the received plurality of videoconferencing streams to the single decoder in place of the first videoconferencing stream; and decoding, by the single decoder, the second videoconferencing stream of the received plurality of videoconferencing streams in response to said providing the second videoconferencing stream to the single decoder.