Starting a video at a specific time using RC

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Hey,

I'm writing a script to control VLC that needs to be able to switch between videos while maintaining the current seek time.
To accomplish this, I'm sending

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clear\r\nadd NEWFILE.MP4\r\nseek TIME

but the seek seems to be ignored, despite returning no error code.
If I add a slight delay before the seek command (around 50ms), it will work but look a little jittery. Is there a better way to do this that I'm missing?

Thanks!