This is a project I have been working on after having multiple requests to create Gource videos for various projects. I got tired of murdering my laptop with gource/ffmpeg processes so I set out to get it done on an EC2 instance. There are a handful of Docker containers out there that do gource videos, but they all suffer from two major drawbacks. They are all headless, but all still require a GPU, and secondly they generally like to output raw video eating tons of disk space.

My image has a handful of configurable options, if time permits I would love to add more.

I do have my videos templated out a bit, I have a border separating the date and key from the actual video. This originates from another script I have which creates quad video output so you can compare 4 git repos at once in the same video. I used some sed hackery and named pipes to keep everything in sync. I hope to be adding this script to the container soon as well. Let me know what you think!