After testing and checking the code as best as I could, I added Andrew's 0001-Add-hidden-fast-slow-playback-preference.patch (mostly) into GIT. It is a very creative and nice solution. Additional testing by others would be helpful.

you probably can safely git checkout this file back to original (current git) state.. I do not think Andrea's test showed any improvement in openability of resulting edl..

I left this out as recommended.

so i wondered if changing speed for fast/slow reverse and normal playback was possible..0001-Add-hidden-fast-slow-playback-preference.patch

after few hours of hacking I made this patch.

it makes fast/slow playback speed configurable in Cinelerra_rc via new stored variables:

To test add the following lines to $HOME/.bcast5/Cinelerra_rc with the value of speed that you want.

SLOW_SPEED .2

FAST_SPEED 4