How can I know users click fast forward and fast rewind buttons on the playback controls in iPhone

I got the answer by myself.

That is using UIApplication’s beginReceivingRemoteControlEvents.

In an appropriate place (like viewWillAppear:) put the following code

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] beginReceivingRemoteControlEvents];
[self becomeFirstResponder];

And the view controller should implement the following method returning YES

- (BOOL)canBecomeFirstResponder {
    return YES; 
}

And then you can receive remote controller event in the following method.

- (void)remoteControlReceivedWithEvent:(UIEvent *)event {

    if( event.type == UIEventTypeRemoteControl ) {
        NSLog(@"sub type: %d", event.subtype);
    }
}

And event.subtype is as below,

typedef enum {
    // available in iPhone OS 3.0
    UIEventSubtypeNone                              = 0,

    // for UIEventTypeMotion, available in iPhone OS 3.0
    UIEventSubtypeMotionShake                       = 1,

    // for UIEventTypeRemoteControl, available in iPhone OS 4.0
    UIEventSubtypeRemoteControlPlay                 = 100,
    UIEventSubtypeRemoteControlPause                = 101,
    UIEventSubtypeRemoteControlStop                 = 102,
    UIEventSubtypeRemoteControlTogglePlayPause      = 103,
    UIEventSubtypeRemoteControlNextTrack            = 104,
    UIEventSubtypeRemoteControlPreviousTrack        = 105,
    UIEventSubtypeRemoteControlBeginSeekingBackward = 106,
    UIEventSubtypeRemoteControlEndSeekingBackward   = 107,
    UIEventSubtypeRemoteControlBeginSeekingForward  = 108,
    UIEventSubtypeRemoteControlEndSeekingForward    = 109,
} UIEventSubtype;