Patent-family-88838974

A video surveillance system comprising an operator client including a system memory, a plurality of display devices for displaying video data and resources for decoding of encoded video data for display, including a plurality of GPUs, wherein each of the display devices is connected to a graphics output port of one of the GPUs. A load distribution module is configured to send a stream of encoded video data to one of the decoding resources by determining a first display device the stream of video data is to be displayed after decoding, and sending the stream of video data to a first GPU for decoding and display on the selected display device, wherein the first GPU is connected to the first display device, unless the first GPU is overloaded. If the first GPU is overloaded, the load distribution module sends the stream of video data to a second GPU for decoding.