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avviddec: use a more conservative default number of threads

Mathieu Duponchelle requested to merge meh/gstreamer:gst-libav-avviddec-conservative-max-threads into main

Copied from https://gitlab.freedesktop.org//gstreamer/gst-libav/-/merge_requests/72

When doing per-frame multithreading, FFmpeg introduces a delay of one frame per thread. On a machine with a high number of cores, the default maximum of 16 can easily lead to deadlocks in multiqueue.

The ideal situation would have multiqueue query a latency downstream to add to its maximum, but that's not easily implemented.

For now simply use a lower default maximum of 4, this should usually still be enough for real-time playback purposes, and can of course be set by the user through the max-threads property.

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