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>
If we are not receiving a sync-point for a very long time, we need to
keep asking for them. The request-sync-point logic keeps track of how
many keyunitrequests we are allowed to send, but that would not matter
if we don't keep asking.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/930>
