tp: android.display.video data source, importer, table and stats (#6143) Adds trace_processor support for the android.display.video data source, which captures device display frames as a hardware video elementary stream. Wire format (protos/perfetto/trace/android/video_frame.proto): * VideoFrame (TracePacket.video_frame): a codec_config-only frame per stream (carrying display_name + RFC 6381 codec_string), then one VideoFrame per on-screen change with a single access unit (au_data). Self-identifying via a per-session display_id. * VideoFrameError (TracePacket.video_frame_error): per-stream failure with a Reason enum (size cap hit, codec error, display gone, no encoder, display not found, encoder setup failed, virtual display failed). Config: DataSourceConfig.display_video_config. Importer (src/trace_processor/plugins/video_frame_importer/): * Parses video_frame into the __intrinsic_video_frames table. The encoded payload is stored zero-copy as a TraceBlobView, surfaced via the __INTRINSIC_VIDEO_FRAME_AU_DATA(id) scalar function (same pattern HPROF/ETM use for blob payloads). * Maps each VideoFrameError reason to its own kIndexed entry in the global stats table, keyed by display_id. * Enforces a parse-time 256 MB per-stream cap as a backstop against traces recorded without a producer cap: over-cap frames are dropped and android_video_size_cap_hit is reported once. The table is intrinsic (not a stdlib module) since only the VideoFrames UI consumes it. Tests: diff tests (single/multi display, au_data blob equivalence, all VideoFrameError reasons) and a unit test for the parse-time cap.
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