The generated gir file marks the size parameter as "out" by default.
This is wrong in the context of a caller allocated buffer with a given size.
Explicitly marking the size parameter as (in) fixes the issue.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/4399>
The purpose of a deep buffer copy is to be able to release the source
buffer and all its dependencies. Attaching the parent buffer meta to
the newly created deep copy needlessly keeps holding a reference to the
parent buffer.
The issue this solves is the fact you need to allocate more
buffers, as you have free buffers being held for no reason. In the good
cases it will use more memory, in the bad case it will stall your
pipeline (since codecs often need a minimum number of buffers to
actually work).
Fixes#283
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/2928>
