1. An apparatus comprising: an eye tracking system for determining an eye-gaze direction line of a user looking at a display screen of a display device; an eye-gaze tracking module for extracting the eye-gaze direction from the eye tracking system and for determining an intersection point where the eye-gaze direction line intersects with the display screen; wherein the eye-gaze tracking module sends the intersection point data to a scalable video decoder; and wherein the scalable video decoder receives an encoded video stream and provides a first set of higher video resolution data to a first region surrounding the intersection point on the display screen and a second set of lower video resolution data to a second region of the video screen.