Hi Dev, I know that this is not really a gstreamer specific question, rather GObject, so I read some GObject descriptions about finalize, but I would like to ask it nevertheless. How many times is the finalize function called during the life of a plugin? It is called only once at the destruction of the Class as the pair of the class_init? Is it a problem if I have some pointers as members of my element, but I don't overwrite the finalize function? Or is it called at the destruction of an element too? Thanks! Zoltan Seress