(manual forward port of 3a31af06)

As it works fine over http if mp4-files are done with mp4box -tight or similar way,
in most cases mp4-files aren't done like that and avformat works much better in those
cases (don't need to seek so much).

lua_osd: add some parameters to the osd.message function to allow the user to set duration and position.

While the configure checks were platform-agnostic, the implementation
was Windows-specific. Worse, this code now conflicts with our Unicode
filesystem layer, which uses the same function names. In practice, this
code was never used.

On Windows, wcstombs() converts UTF-16 to ANSI, not to UTF-8.

They may be inconsistent on broken multi-processor hardware. But the
system tick count is causing worse problems with power saving features.

This reverts commit 4d636fa3.

This reverts commit a869d39d.

It isn't dangerous, helps people that use those features in playlists,
although those playlists are VLC-specific

(still default enabled, but now it's save to use the OS X defaults without bothering about it)