[Feature]: onSeekStart Event

[stephenlindauer]

Description

Hey guys, I am building the mobile version of our existing web project where I used VideoJS there. I noticed a gap in functionality that I would really love to have here. They provide both seeking and seeked event callbacks, where seeking is an 'on seek started' and seeked is 'on seek ended'. Right now there's only a onSeek (which the docs say "when a seek completes").

However, on iOS 18.3 on device and simulator, I'm not actually seeing the onSeek callback working either.

Why it is needed ?

I am trying to add watchtime measurement and it's generally working well unless a user skips around the video manually, where I'd want to exclude the part that is being skipped.

Possible implementation

If we can detect user intention when they start dragging the playback timeline, that might work.

When skipping with the +/-10s button, firing the event before changing the timeline.

Code sample

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