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I already know that you have multiply the time in seconds with 1000000 (why?)
for seeking with lua in vlc-3.0. But that does not work on the commandline:

vlc dvd://<path>#<title> --start-time=50000000 does not seek 50 seconds into
the title. Neither does --start-time 50 or :start-time=50 or changing the order
of the commands. Is this a bug, or is the commandline deprecated? The help
option and the docs are useless, as usual.

And if the commandline is indeed deprecated, are you going to disable the
#<title> option too? Because that would make it impossible to skip the nag
screens on some DVDs and seek to a resume point.

The DVDs I use for testing are not to blame; seeking works perfectly and
accurately both on the commandline and with lua in vlc-2.2.2.

Solved - sort of, at least the Lua part.
According to the bug report I filed about missing documentation of the change
in vlc.object.input(), "time" , VLC object variables are internal and won't be documented,
so users writing their own interface scripts will have to study the files in vlc/share/lua
for any changes to keep up (But it's always been that way, hasn't it?). Apparently,
"interface" means only "cli.lua", even though it's a horrible program and not on a par
with the rest of the VLC code (personal opinion of course, but I've worked enough with it
so I can judge).

The --start-time issue is unsolved, but it seems no bug reports for vlc3 are accepted, even
though I am not the only one having this issue.