iPhone: Setting currentTime before playing the video breaks timeupdate events

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Description

On iPhones, setting the start time (using currentTime(...)) before the video is played breaks the timeupdate events.

After this and the video is playing, further attempts to call currentTime(...) lead to erratic behaviour, where sometimes timeupdate starts working again, other times it gets stuck in the same value (even though the video is playing).

On iPad, Android devices and Desktop it works as expected: When playing the video, the video starts from the requested time and timeupdate events get triggered normally.

Reduced test case

https://codepen.io/tmldsousa/pen/azbaEqm

Steps to reproduce

1. Initialise the player
2. Listen to timeupdate events
3. Set the initial time using currentTime(...)
4. Play the video (using play() or otherwise click in the play button)
5. Bug: The video doesn't start from the previously set time, and timeupdate events are not triggered

Errors

No error seems to be displayed on console, or raised in the error event handler.

What version of Video.js are you using?

8.21.1

Video.js plugins used.

none

What browser(s) including version(s) does this occur with?

Any browser (tested Safari / Chrome)

What OS(es) and version(s) does this occur with?

iOS 18.3.1 (iPhone only, iPad works)

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