Fix: Swallow AbortError from interrupted video play()

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Problem

• On one production renderer session, media playback logged 9 phantom exceptions that error tracking recorded as unhandled crashes — two false issues, one noisy (8 hits in ~90 seconds).
• Users are not affected: the video follows the shared playback state either way. The cost is noise that can bury a real renderer failure on a low-volume project.
• Root cause: the renderer calls HTMLVideoElement.play() imperatively while react-player also drives the same element through playing={isPlaying}. A pause() or a new source load aborts the pending play, which rejects with DOMException: AbortError. The returned promise was not handled, so each rejection became an unhandled rejection captured as handled: false.

Changes

• Guard the imperative play() in packages/video/src/client/VideoPlayer/VideoPlayer.tsx: attach a catch that ignores AbortError and rethrows any other error, so genuine media failures still surface.
• No behavior change for users.

Scope note

• The report also named plugins/video-player/view/Remote/VideoCard.tsx:80 for the same guard. That line calls videoControls.play(), which only mutates shared valtio state and returns void — it never touches a media element and cannot produce this rejection. The two error-tracking issues are AbortErrors from a media play(), and the only imperative media play() in the codebase is the one fixed here. So no change is needed at that call site.

Testing

• Dependencies are not installed in this environment (node_modules absent), so lint, typecheck, and build were not run here. The change is a single catch on an existing call; please let CI verify.

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