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decodebin3: Make input activation "atomic"

When adding inputs dynamically, we need to make sure the new parsebin are added and activated by the same thread (by taking the state change lock).

The rationale for this is that the calling thread might be an upstream streaming thread and when activating parsebin it might call back upstream. If we don't use the same thread (ex: when the application does a state change on decodebin3 between the moment we add parsebin to decodebin3 and we synchronize the state of parsebin) then we would end up in different threads trying to take upstream recursive locks.

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