Lua 64-bit integer support
In VLC 3.0 the time is changed to microseconds, which means vlc/src/misc/variables.c will set values above 2147483647 (~35 minutes or 2148 seconds) to 0.
Example Lua code that will erroneously set time to 0 seconds:
vlc.var.set("time",2148000000)
Potentially relevant is line 99 of /src/input/input_internal.h
int64_t: i_time; /* Current time */
Also, potentially relevant is /src/misc/variables.c line 217-226:
case VLC_VAR_INTEGER:
if ((var->i_type & VLC_VAR_HASSTEP) && var->step.i_int
&& (val->i_int % var->step.i_int))
val->i_int = (val->i_int + (var->step.i_int / 2))
/ var->step.i_int * var->step.i_int;
if ((var->i_type & VLC_VAR_HASMIN) && val->i_int < var->min.i_int)
val->i_int = var->min.i_int;
if ((var->i_type & VLC_VAR_HASMAX) && val->i_int > var->max.i_int)
val->i_int = var->max.i_int;
break;
The solution might be to change it to a float, though I don't know if that will cause other issues regarding precision.
For more details see: https://github.com/Syncplay/syncplay/pull/109