<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>gst_buffer_unref and pad push</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3086" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY>  Hello Developers,  When a plugin does the gst_pad_push() of a buffer, the next plugin in the  pipeline does the gst_buffer_unref() of that buffer in its chain().  What if gst_pad_push() fails .... in that case is the plugin sending the  buffer has to unreference the buffer or is is done internally by Gstreamer ?  My understanding is it should be done by the plugin doing the pad_push() as  it can be seen in many plugin codes.  But when I am doing as its mentioned above,  I am getting the Gstreamer Warning:  (<unknown>:1295): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_mini_object_unref: assertion `mini_object->refcount > 0' failed which means , the reference count of the buffer is already 0. I am unable to understand the reason for above. Please help me to understand why am I getting the warning as such . Thanks in advance Ragards, Arnab   </BODY></HTML>