In my setting I must be able to totally deinitialize the server when not in use to conserve resources (embedded in Android app). Simply unreffing the server doesn't help. It doesn't close it's listening socket, so when started the next time the listening port is already in use. The server also has refs to GIOChannel and GSource which are never unreffed from what I can see.

For now, I've added code close the listening socket and unref GIOChannel and GSource in gst_rtsp_server_finalize. It seems to work, but I'm a glib noob, so I could be horribly wrong.

The caller of gst_rtsp_server_attach is responsible for detaching the server from its context. If not done, GIOChannel and GSource will be left with ref_count 1.

My updated gst_rtsp_server_finalize:

static void
gst_rtsp_server_finalize (GObject * object)
{
  GstRTSPServer *server = GST_RTSP_SERVER (object);

  g_free (server->address);
  g_free (server->service);

  g_object_unref (server->session_pool);
  g_object_unref (server->media_mapping);

  if (server->io_watch)
    g_source_unref (server->io_watch);
  if (server->io_channel)
    g_io_channel_unref (server->io_channel);
  if (server->server_sock.fd >= 0)
    close (server->server_sock.fd);
}