vdpau: make mp_vdpau_ctx thread-safe

Preparation so that various things related to video can run in different
threads. One part to this is making the video surface pool safe.

Another issue is the preemption mechanism, which continues to give us
endless pain. In theory, it's probably impossible to handle preemption
100% correctly and race-condition free, unless _every_ API user in the
same process uses a central, shared mutex to protect every vdpau API
call. Otherwise, it could happen that one thread recovering from
preemption allocates a vdpau object, and then another thread (which
hasn't recovered yet) happens to free the object for some reason. This
is because objects are referenced by integer IDs, and vdpau will reuse
IDs invalidated by preemption after preemption.

Since this is unreasonable, we're as lazy as possible when it comes to
handling preemption. We don't do any locking around the mp_vdpau_ctx
fields that are normally immutable, and only can change when recovering
from preemption. In practice, this will work, because it doesn't matter
whether not-yet-recovered components use the old or new vdpau function
pointers or device ID. Code calls mp_vdpau_handle_preemption() anyway to
check for the preemption event and possibly to recover, and that
function acquires the lock protecting the preemption state.

Another possible source of potential grandiose fuckup is the fact that
the vdpau library is in fact only a tiny wrapper, and the real driver
lives in a shared object dlopen()ed by the wrapper. The wrapper also
calls dlclose() on the loaded shared object in some situations. One
possible danger is that failing to recreate a vdpau device could trigger
a dlclose() call, and that glibc might unload it. Currently, glibc
implements full unloading of shared objects on the last dlclose() call,
and if that happens, calls to function pointers pointing into the shared
object would obviously crash. Fortunately, it seems the existing vdpau
wrapper won't trigger this case and never unloads the driver once it's
successfully loaded.

To make it short, vdpau preemption opens up endless depths of WTFs.

Another issue is that any participating thread might do the preemption
recovery (whichever comes first). This is easier to implement. The
implication is that we need threadsafe xlib. We just hope and pray that
this will actually work. This also means that once vdpau code is
actually involved in a multithreaded scenario, we have to add
XInitThreads() to the X11 code.

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