Selecting chapter in MKV file from command line

[gick]

I have a video test.mkv with several titles that makes use of the Matroska features ordered chapters and multiple editions.

According to the documentation, if I wanted, for example, to start playing the file at title 1 and chapter 8, I should do something like this:

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vlc test.mkv @ 1:8

The problem is that VLC completely ignores my request and starts the video using the default title and chapter 1. Is the syntax incorrect? I have tried many variations of that with no success.

[kodela]

Make it with:

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vlc test.mkv --start-time=[time to the chapter in seconds]