(cherry picked from commit 6bc23f93c05386379825ff65bd8ca6ca9c4c3324)

(cherry picked from commit 698def5a)

(cherry picked from commit f7e12af9)

(cherry picked from commit 1c7807c3)

Fix #1087
(cherry picked from commit a37a2740)

(cherry picked from commit a7afe6c6)

(cherry picked from commit b504377e)

(cherry picked from commit 6dcdf717)

(cherry picked from commit 53532e89)

(cherry picked from commit e28a802a)

To help find the cause of crashes and freeze
when running the benchmark, stacktraces will be stored
by vlc-android and consummed by vlcbenchmark whenever
these happen.

(cherry picked from commit 1d1fcbd7)

(cherry picked from commit 3697cede)

(cherry picked from commit 4b8ff286)

(cherry picked from commit c4d3707b)

(cherry picked from commit 34fcf1be)

(cherry picked from commit c1434fe3)

(cherry picked from commit 9c88015a)

(cherry picked from commit 6e14e2856dd097167a36fa1499bd04a63abcd22d)

(cherry picked from commit 0e0ccace9f7ce94d85361c7847b58d9992449e01)

The smb2 module has been backported into VLC 3.0 but disabled by default.

(cherry picked from commit 83f6d7f1)

- Throw an esception in debug build
- Add a log line to help debugging
- Move it to the companion object for safety

(cherry picked from commit 5fb016ea)

Coroutines dispatching could cause desync operations

coroutines dispatching could cause race conditions

(cherry picked from commit 3acf91be)

(cherry picked from commit a62a5144)

(cherry picked from commit b2d59fbf)

(cherry picked from commit 3c361a4e)

(cherry picked from commit 6c4c0dc5)

(cherry picked from commit 9aecf984)

Fixes #1051

(cherry picked from commit 5983d0ad)

(cherry picked from commit 53e0e04b)