Hi there,

I am not sure if this is a bug or a misunderstanding but gst_deinit() does not seem to do what I expect. The documentation says it "cleans up any resources created by gst_init()" so I would expect something like that to work:

  int main() {
    gst_init(NULL, NULL);
    gst_deinit();
    gst_init(NULL, NULL);
  
    GstElement *element = gst_element_factory_make("identity", "identity");
    assert(element);
    g_object_unref(element);

    gst_deinit();
  }

But it doesn't as the element pointer is always NULL. If gst_init() cannot be used after a gst_deinit() call, what is the purpose of having a gst_deinit() API? It would be really nice for the testsuites to be able to go back to a NULL state before testing new units.

Also, libasan's address sanitizer shows a 16384 bytes memory leak in the following code:

  int main() {
    gst_init(NULL, NULL);
    gst_deinit();
  }

So the resources are not completely freed when calling gst_deinit(), could that explain why gst_init() does not work after gst_deinit()?

Thanks,