MiniObject.ref_

Increase the reference count of the mini-object.

Note that the refcount affects the writability of mini-object, see MiniObject.isWritable. It is important to note that keeping additional references to GstMiniObject instances can potentially increase the number of memcpy operations in a pipeline, especially if the miniobject is a gstreamer.Buffer

class MiniObject
ref_
()

Return Value

the mini-object.