[gst-devel] gst caps

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 13:55 +0530, vineeth wrote:

>   I am a newbie to gst ( and gobject ). While writing a gst app and
> debugging a refcount problem, I see that for GstCaps, gst_caps_unref()
> is used, while for 
>   other objects like GstElement, gst_object_unref() is used. Why is it
> like this, doesn't every object inherit from GObject by default? Pls
> share your insights.

GstCaps is more of a refcounted C structure, it's not supposed to be
subclassed (outside of GStreamer), so not a full object for a reason.

Other object types used in GStreamer are GstMiniObjects (buffers,
events) and GObjects (elements, etc.).

Cheers
 -Tim