Render videos of a git repository. This is my config for TYPO3 CMS 4.6. The perl script for fetching the avatar images might be broken. It is not really needed. And it does store all images as PNG files, but some of them are JPEGs...

.gource

[display]
#fullscreen=true
#viewport=1680x1050
viewport=1280x720

[gource]
camera-mode=overview
colour-images=true
file-idle-time=5
hide=filenames,dirnames,mouse,progress,date
highlight-users=false
highlight-colour=69A550
key=false
log-format=git
max-files=0
max-user-speed=200
user-friction=300
user-image-dir=.git/avatar/
multi-sampling=true
no-vsync=true
output-framerate=60
seconds-per-day=0.1
stop-at-end=true
logo=typo3/sysext/t3skin/images/login/typo3logo-white.png

avatar.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl
#fetch Gravatars

use strict;
use warnings;

use LWP::Simple;
use Digest::MD5 qw(md5_hex);
use Thread::Pool::Simple;

my $size       = 90;
my $output_dir = '.git/avatar';

system("no .git/ directory found in current path\n") unless -d '.git';

mkdir($output_dir) unless -d $output_dir;

open(GITLOG, q/git log --pretty=format:"%ae|%an" |/) or die("failed to read git-log: $!\n");

my %processed_authors;

sub fetch
{
    #try and fetch image
    my ($name, $email, $author_image_file) = @_;
    my $grav_url = "http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/".md5_hex(lc $email)."?d=404&s=".$size;

    warn "fetching image for '$name' $email ($grav_url)...\n";

    my $rc = getstore($grav_url, $author_image_file);
    if($rc != 200) {
        unlink($author_image_file);
    }
	sleep 5;
}

my $pool = Thread::Pool::Simple->new(min => 10, max => 20, do => [\&fetch]);

while(<GITLOG>) {
    chomp;
    my($email, $author) = split(/\|/, $_);

    next if $processed_authors{$author}++;

    my $author_image_file = $output_dir . '/' . $author . '.png';
    #skip images we have
    next if -e $author_image_file;

    $pool->add(($author, $email, $author_image_file));
}
$pool->join();

close GITLOG;

gource.sh

#!/bin/bash

Titel="TYPO3 4.6 Development"
Begin=TYPO3_4-5-0
End=TYPO3_4-6-0
GourceConfig=.gource
VideoName="TYPO3_4-6_development.webm"
Threads=3

echo "Recreating avators in .git/avatar/"
./avatar.pl
echo "Starting rendering"
git log --pretty=format:user:%aN%n%ct --reverse --raw --encoding=UTF-8 --no-renames $Begin..$End |gource --load-config "$GourceConfig" --title "$Titel" -o - - |ffmpeg -y -r 60 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm -i - -vcodec libvpx -b 10000K -threads $Threads $VideoName