[Cin] variable fast/slow playback speed hack

[Andrew Randrianasulu]

On Wednesday, August 11, 2021, Phyllis Smith via Cin <
cin at lists.cinelerra-gg.org> wrote:

> 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
>


I think in documentation better wording will be "4x faster and 5x slower"
(because 20% of 100% speed is 1/5):

http://git.cinelerra-gg.org/git/?p=goodguy/cin-manual-latex.git;a=blobdiff;f=parts/Configuration.tex;h=6d04c915f55419353250bd3ff73ff6bad2ff0d49;hp=f92c6c22575adefaf54ff0a0b8cf61a91e53175a;hb=93df0d1b07800684ffb78666fb0f339917be0724;hpb=f163a24bcb2fcd4119bf20d8ea8508151f9d3638


"For example, adding the 2 lines FAST\_SPEED 4 and SLOW\_SPEED .2 to the
end of the Cinelerra\_rc wile will result in playing at 4 times faster and
20\% slower."

unless I misread raw tex...
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