diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/gst/matroska/ebml-read.c b/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/gst/matroska/ebml-read.c
index f66990b35e..6ffc9f1113 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/gst/matroska/ebml-read.c
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/gst/matroska/ebml-read.c
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ void
 gst_ebml_read_clear (GstEbmlRead * ebml)
 {
   if (ebml->readers)
-    g_array_free (ebml->readers, TRUE);
+    g_array_unref (ebml->readers);
   ebml->readers = NULL;
   if (ebml->buf) {
     gst_buffer_unmap (ebml->buf, &ebml->map);
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/gst/matroska/matroska-demux.c b/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/gst/matroska/matroska-demux.c
index 1eb429f938..ae3588487b 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/gst/matroska/matroska-demux.c
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/gst/matroska/matroska-demux.c
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ gst_matroska_demux_reset (GstElement * element)
   demux->tracks_parsed = FALSE;
 
   if (demux->clusters) {
-    g_array_free (demux->clusters, TRUE);
+    g_array_unref (demux->clusters);
     demux->clusters = NULL;
   }
 
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/gst/matroska/matroska-ids.c b/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/gst/matroska/matroska-ids.c
index eca5279224..f11b7c2ce3 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/gst/matroska/matroska-ids.c
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/gst/matroska/matroska-ids.c
@@ -349,14 +349,14 @@ gst_matroska_track_free (GstMatroskaTrackContext * track)
 
       g_free (enc->comp_settings);
     }
-    g_array_free (track->encodings, TRUE);
+    g_array_unref (track->encodings);
   }
 
   if (track->tags)
     gst_tag_list_unref (track->tags);
 
   if (track->index_table)
-    g_array_free (track->index_table, TRUE);
+    g_array_unref (track->index_table);
 
   if (track->stream_headers)
     gst_buffer_list_unref (track->stream_headers);
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/gst/matroska/matroska-read-common.c b/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/gst/matroska/matroska-read-common.c
index e2bedc8c1a..2b63c03d56 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/gst/matroska/matroska-read-common.c
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/gst/matroska/matroska-read-common.c
@@ -1809,7 +1809,7 @@ gst_matroska_read_common_parse_index (GstMatroskaReadCommon * common,
   guint i;
 
   if (common->index)
-    g_array_free (common->index, TRUE);
+    g_array_unref (common->index);
   common->index =
       g_array_sized_new (FALSE, FALSE, sizeof (GstMatroskaIndex), 128);
 
@@ -1897,7 +1897,7 @@ gst_matroska_read_common_parse_index (GstMatroskaReadCommon * common,
 
   /* sanity check; empty index normalizes to no index */
   if (common->index->len == 0) {
-    g_array_free (common->index, TRUE);
+    g_array_unref (common->index);
     common->index = NULL;
   }
 
@@ -3319,7 +3319,7 @@ gst_matroska_read_common_reset (GstElement * element,
 
   /* reset indexes */
   if (ctx->index) {
-    g_array_free (ctx->index, TRUE);
+    g_array_unref (ctx->index);
     ctx->index = NULL;
   }