perf(downloads): de-prioritize worker transcodes + idle-back-off polls to stop LAN slowdown

The download/edit child (yt-dlp + ffmpeg) shares one LAN box with the API,
Postgres, and Plex playback. A CPU re-encode pegged every core for ~30s and
starved web requests + playback until it finished. Full-scope S4 mitigations:

- Child self-de-prioritizes at startup (inherited by every ffmpeg/yt-dlp
  descendant): CPU nice increment + best-effort idle ionice class + an
  OMP_NUM_THREADS budget, all config-gated and independently disable-able.
- Cap the browser-safe re-encode's encoder threads (`-threads`) so a transcode
  reserves a core for foreground work instead of claiming all of them.
- Throttle the retention GC's whole-tree orphan sweep (yield IO after each
  batch of files) so its rglob can't monopolize disk IO in the API process.
- Idle-back-off the Download Center (2s→15s when nothing queued/running) and
  UsageBar (2s→15s when running_jobs is 0) polls; both snap back to 2s on the
  next fetch after an enqueue (invalidateDownloads refetches immediately).

Tests: encode_thread_cap (pin/reserve-core/edge), -threads flag presence,
_deprioritize (nice/ionice/OMP branches), GC sweep throttle batching.
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@@ -381,7 +381,9 @@ def _ensure_browser_playable(job_id: int, produced: Path, spec: dict, info: dict
# re-encode still shows real progress instead of a frozen 0%.
total_s = int(info["duration"]) if info.get("duration") else editmod.probe_duration(produced)
editmod.run_ffmpeg(
editmod.build_browser_safe_cmd(produced, dest, reenc_v, reenc_a),
editmod.build_browser_safe_cmd(
produced, dest, reenc_v, reenc_a, threads=editmod.encode_thread_cap()
),
total_s=total_s,
on_progress=_ffmpeg_progress_writer(job_id, "processing"),
should_cancel=_cancel_poll(job_id),