Andrew, this went to my SPAM instead of Inbox so I just found it now which explains why I did not understand the followup patch that did go to the Inbox.  Sometimes I wonder about Gmail.  I think I am going to stop what I am supposed to be doing and test this instead because it sounds like fun !

so i wondered if changing speed for fast/slow reverse and normal playback was possible..

after few hours of hacking I made this patch. 

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