diff --git a/gir-files/Gst-1.0.gir b/gir-files/Gst-1.0.gir
index 032c22885..0a19b4c0a 100644
--- a/gir-files/Gst-1.0.gir
+++ b/gir-files/Gst-1.0.gir
@@ -3875,7 +3875,7 @@ gst_buffer_pool_config_add_option().</doc>
         <return-value transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">a %NULL terminated array
          of strings.</doc>
-          <array c:type="gchar**">
+          <array c:type="const gchar**">
             <type name="utf8"/>
           </array>
         </return-value>
@@ -4028,7 +4028,7 @@ gst_buffer_pool_config_add_option().</doc>
         <return-value transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">a %NULL terminated array
          of strings.</doc>
-          <array c:type="gchar**">
+          <array c:type="const gchar**">
             <type name="utf8"/>
           </array>
         </return-value>
@@ -4265,7 +4265,7 @@ return.</doc>
           <return-value transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">a %NULL terminated array
          of strings.</doc>
-            <array c:type="gchar**">
+            <array c:type="const gchar**">
               <type name="utf8"/>
             </array>
           </return-value>
@@ -15848,7 +15848,7 @@ make a copy of the protocol string array if you need to.</doc>
         <return-value transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">the supported protocols
     or %NULL</doc>
-          <array c:type="gchar**">
+          <array c:type="const gchar* const*">
             <type name="utf8"/>
           </array>
         </return-value>
@@ -23214,7 +23214,7 @@ buffers.</doc>
                 version="1.2">
         <return-value transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">an array of tags as strings.</doc>
-          <array c:type="gchar**">
+          <array c:type="const gchar* const*">
             <type name="utf8"/>
           </array>
         </return-value>
@@ -23258,7 +23258,7 @@ buffers.</doc>
           </parameter>
           <parameter name="tags" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">tags for @api</doc>
-            <array c:type="gchar**">
+            <array c:type="const gchar**">
               <type name="utf8" c:type="gchar*"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -29704,7 +29704,7 @@ codec libraries are currently installed.</doc>
     or %NULL. Environment variable names may be followed by a path component
      which will be added to the content of the environment variable, e.g.
      "HOME/.mystuff/plugins".</doc>
-            <array c:type="gchar**">
+            <array c:type="const gchar**">
               <type name="utf8" c:type="gchar*"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -29714,7 +29714,7 @@ codec libraries are currently installed.</doc>
                      allow-none="1">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">%NULL-terminated array of directories/paths where dependent files
     may be, or %NULL.</doc>
-            <array c:type="gchar**">
+            <array c:type="const gchar**">
               <type name="utf8" c:type="gchar*"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -29726,7 +29726,7 @@ codec libraries are currently installed.</doc>
     depending on @flags) to be used in combination with the paths from
     @paths and/or the paths extracted from the environment variables in
     @env_vars, or %NULL.</doc>
-            <array c:type="gchar**">
+            <array c:type="const gchar**">
               <type name="utf8" c:type="gchar*"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -33717,7 +33717,7 @@ in the @formats array must be equal to @n_formats.</doc>
           <parameter name="formats" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">an array containing @n_formats
     @GstFormat values.</doc>
-            <array length="0" zero-terminated="0" c:type="GstFormat*">
+            <array length="0" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const GstFormat*">
               <type name="Format" c:type="GstFormat"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -35679,8 +35679,9 @@ outside of the segment is extrapolated.
 When 1 is returned, @running_time resulted in a positive position returned
 in @position.
 
-When this function returns -1, the returned @position should be negated
-to get the real negative segment position.</doc>
+When this function returns -1, the returned @position was &lt; 0, and the value
+in the position variable should be negated to get the real negative segment
+position.</doc>
         <return-value transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">a 1 or -1 on success, 0 on failure.</doc>
           <type name="gint" c:type="gint"/>
@@ -43006,7 +43007,7 @@ returns and must not be freed.</doc>
         <return-value transfer-ownership="none" nullable="1">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">the
     requested data, or %NULL if that data is not available.</doc>
-          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </return-value>
@@ -43273,7 +43274,7 @@ a 0-length list.</doc>
         <return-value transfer-ownership="none" nullable="1">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">
     a %NULL-terminated array of extensions associated with this factory</doc>
-          <array c:type="gchar**">
+          <array c:type="const gchar* const*">
             <type name="utf8"/>
           </array>
         </return-value>
@@ -44725,7 +44726,7 @@ determine a order for the two provided values.</doc>
       <doc xml:space="preserve">The major version of GStreamer at compile time:</doc>
       <type name="gint" c:type="gint"/>
     </constant>
-    <constant name="VERSION_MICRO" value="1" c:type="GST_VERSION_MICRO">
+    <constant name="VERSION_MICRO" value="4" c:type="GST_VERSION_MICRO">
       <doc xml:space="preserve">The micro version of GStreamer at compile time:</doc>
       <type name="gint" c:type="gint"/>
     </constant>
@@ -45998,7 +45999,7 @@ is unknown.</doc>
       <parameters>
         <parameter name="formats" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">The format array to search</doc>
-          <array c:type="GstFormat*">
+          <array c:type="const GstFormat*">
             <type name="Format" c:type="GstFormat"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -46148,8 +46149,8 @@ abort program execution.</doc>
                    nullable="1"
                    allow-none="1">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">pointer to application's argv</doc>
-          <array length="0" zero-terminated="0" c:type="char**">
-            <type name="utf8" c:type="char*"/>
+          <array length="0" zero-terminated="0" c:type="char***">
+            <type name="utf8" c:type="char**"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
       </parameters>
@@ -46182,8 +46183,8 @@ use gst_init() instead.</doc>
                    nullable="1"
                    allow-none="1">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">pointer to application's argv</doc>
-          <array length="0" zero-terminated="0" c:type="char**">
-            <type name="utf8" c:type="char*"/>
+          <array length="0" zero-terminated="0" c:type="char***">
+            <type name="utf8" c:type="char**"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
       </parameters>
@@ -46286,7 +46287,7 @@ or gst_init_check().</doc>
               version="1.2">
       <return-value transfer-ownership="none">
         <doc xml:space="preserve">an array of tags as strings.</doc>
-        <array c:type="gchar**">
+        <array c:type="const gchar* const*">
           <type name="utf8"/>
         </array>
       </return-value>
@@ -46332,7 +46333,7 @@ or gst_init_check().</doc>
         </parameter>
         <parameter name="tags" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">tags for @api</doc>
-          <array c:type="gchar**">
+          <array c:type="const gchar**">
             <type name="utf8" c:type="gchar*"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -46742,7 +46743,7 @@ on failure.</doc>
       <parameters>
         <parameter name="argv" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">null-terminated array of arguments</doc>
-          <array c:type="gchar**">
+          <array c:type="const gchar**">
             <type name="utf8" c:type="gchar*"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -46765,7 +46766,7 @@ An error does not mean that the pipeline could not be constructed.</doc>
       <parameters>
         <parameter name="argv" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">null-terminated array of arguments</doc>
-          <array c:type="gchar**">
+          <array c:type="const gchar**">
             <type name="utf8" c:type="gchar*"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -47001,7 +47002,7 @@ the @system_identifiers supported by the set of available decryptors, or
           <doc xml:space="preserve">
 A null terminated array of strings that contains the UUID values of each
 protection system that is to be checked.</doc>
-          <array c:type="gchar**">
+          <array c:type="const gchar**">
             <type name="utf8" c:type="gchar*"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -47038,7 +47039,7 @@ element has been found.</doc>
           <doc xml:space="preserve">A null terminated array of strings
 that contains the UUID values of each protection system that is to be
 checked.</doc>
-          <array c:type="gchar**">
+          <array c:type="const gchar**">
             <type name="utf8" c:type="gchar*"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -47870,7 +47871,7 @@ the result.</doc>
       <parameters>
         <parameter name="mem" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">a pointer to the memory to dump</doc>
-          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guchar*">
+          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guchar*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guchar"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
diff --git a/gir-files/GstAudio-1.0.gir b/gir-files/GstAudio-1.0.gir
index 71c526717..ea01c7de6 100644
--- a/gir-files/GstAudio-1.0.gir
+++ b/gir-files/GstAudio-1.0.gir
@@ -1641,14 +1641,14 @@ Perform channel mixing on @in_data and write the result to @out_data.
                      nullable="1"
                      allow-none="1">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">input samples</doc>
-            <type name="gpointer" c:type="const gpointer"/>
+            <type name="gpointer" c:type="const gpointer*"/>
           </parameter>
           <parameter name="out"
                      transfer-ownership="none"
                      nullable="1"
                      allow-none="1">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">output samples</doc>
-            <type name="gpointer" c:type="gpointer"/>
+            <type name="gpointer" c:type="gpointer*"/>
           </parameter>
           <parameter name="samples" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">number of samples</doc>
@@ -2431,7 +2431,7 @@ are matching and @in and @out point to enough memory.</doc>
                      nullable="1"
                      allow-none="1">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">input frames</doc>
-            <type name="gpointer" c:type="gpointer"/>
+            <type name="gpointer" c:type="gpointer*"/>
           </parameter>
           <parameter name="in_frames" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">number of input frames</doc>
@@ -2442,7 +2442,7 @@ are matching and @in and @out point to enough memory.</doc>
                      nullable="1"
                      allow-none="1">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">output frames</doc>
-            <type name="gpointer" c:type="gpointer"/>
+            <type name="gpointer" c:type="gpointer*"/>
           </parameter>
           <parameter name="out_frames" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">number of output frames</doc>
@@ -5714,7 +5714,7 @@ and will be packed into @data.</doc>
         </parameter>
         <parameter name="src" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">a source array</doc>
-          <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="gpointer">
+          <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="const gpointer">
             <type name="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -5755,7 +5755,7 @@ channels * size(unpack_format) bytes.</doc>
         </parameter>
         <parameter name="data" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">pointer to the audio data</doc>
-          <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="gpointer">
+          <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="const gpointer">
             <type name="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -5959,7 +5959,7 @@ Note: This initializes @info first, no values are preserved.</doc>
                      allow-none="1">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">the channel positions</doc>
             <array zero-terminated="0"
-                   c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition*"
+                   c:type="const GstAudioChannelPosition*"
                    fixed-size="64">
               <type name="AudioChannelPosition"
                     c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition"/>
@@ -6108,14 +6108,14 @@ modified in-place.</doc>
                      nullable="1"
                      allow-none="1">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">input samples</doc>
-            <type name="gpointer" c:type="const gpointer"/>
+            <type name="gpointer" c:type="const gpointer*"/>
           </parameter>
           <parameter name="out"
                      transfer-ownership="none"
                      nullable="1"
                      allow-none="1">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">output samples</doc>
-            <type name="gpointer" c:type="gpointer"/>
+            <type name="gpointer" c:type="gpointer*"/>
           </parameter>
           <parameter name="samples" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">number of samples</doc>
@@ -6286,7 +6286,7 @@ are matching and @in and @out point to enough memory.</doc>
                      nullable="1"
                      allow-none="1">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">input samples</doc>
-            <type name="gpointer" c:type="gpointer"/>
+            <type name="gpointer" c:type="gpointer*"/>
           </parameter>
           <parameter name="in_frames" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">number of input frames</doc>
@@ -6297,7 +6297,7 @@ are matching and @in and @out point to enough memory.</doc>
                      nullable="1"
                      allow-none="1">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">output samples</doc>
-            <type name="gpointer" c:type="gpointer"/>
+            <type name="gpointer" c:type="gpointer*"/>
           </parameter>
           <parameter name="out_frames" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">number of output frames</doc>
@@ -7392,7 +7392,7 @@ be called in when the ringbuffer is acquired.</doc>
           </instance-parameter>
           <parameter name="position" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">the device channel positions</doc>
-            <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition*">
+            <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="const GstAudioChannelPosition*">
               <type name="AudioChannelPosition"
                     c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition"/>
             </array>
@@ -8955,7 +8955,7 @@ positions and the same positions, only in a different order.
           <doc xml:space="preserve">The channel positions in the buffer.</doc>
           <array length="2"
                  zero-terminated="0"
-                 c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition*">
+                 c:type="const GstAudioChannelPosition*">
             <type name="AudioChannelPosition"
                   c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition"/>
           </array>
@@ -8964,7 +8964,7 @@ positions and the same positions, only in a different order.
           <doc xml:space="preserve">The channel positions to convert to.</doc>
           <array length="2"
                  zero-terminated="0"
-                 c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition*">
+                 c:type="const GstAudioChannelPosition*">
             <type name="AudioChannelPosition"
                   c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition"/>
           </array>
@@ -9115,7 +9115,7 @@ in the order required by GStreamer.</doc>
           <doc xml:space="preserve">The %GstAudioChannelPositions</doc>
           <array length="1"
                  zero-terminated="0"
-                 c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition*">
+                 c:type="const GstAudioChannelPosition*">
             <type name="AudioChannelPosition"
                   c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition"/>
           </array>
@@ -9154,7 +9154,7 @@ Since 1.10</doc>
   to convert.</doc>
           <array length="1"
                  zero-terminated="0"
-                 c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition*">
+                 c:type="const GstAudioChannelPosition*">
             <type name="AudioChannelPosition"
                   c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition"/>
           </array>
@@ -9206,7 +9206,7 @@ checks if the channels are in the order required by GStreamer.</doc>
   to check.</doc>
           <array length="1"
                  zero-terminated="0"
-                 c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition*">
+                 c:type="const GstAudioChannelPosition*">
             <type name="AudioChannelPosition"
                   c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition"/>
           </array>
@@ -9373,7 +9373,7 @@ is possible.</doc>
           <doc xml:space="preserve">The channel positions to reorder from.</doc>
           <array length="0"
                  zero-terminated="0"
-                 c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition*">
+                 c:type="const GstAudioChannelPosition*">
             <type name="AudioChannelPosition"
                   c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition"/>
           </array>
@@ -9382,7 +9382,7 @@ is possible.</doc>
           <doc xml:space="preserve">The channel positions to reorder to.</doc>
           <array length="0"
                  zero-terminated="0"
-                 c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition*">
+                 c:type="const GstAudioChannelPosition*">
             <type name="AudioChannelPosition"
                   c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition"/>
           </array>
@@ -9425,7 +9425,7 @@ otherwise.</doc>
       <parameters>
         <parameter name="src" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">a buffer containing the data to payload</doc>
-          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -9531,7 +9531,7 @@ positions and the same positions, only in a different order.</doc>
           <doc xml:space="preserve">The channel positions in the buffer.</doc>
           <array length="3"
                  zero-terminated="0"
-                 c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition*">
+                 c:type="const GstAudioChannelPosition*">
             <type name="AudioChannelPosition"
                   c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition"/>
           </array>
@@ -9540,7 +9540,7 @@ positions and the same positions, only in a different order.</doc>
           <doc xml:space="preserve">The channel positions to convert to.</doc>
           <array length="3"
                  zero-terminated="0"
-                 c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition*">
+                 c:type="const GstAudioChannelPosition*">
             <type name="AudioChannelPosition"
                   c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition"/>
           </array>
@@ -9664,7 +9664,7 @@ of the results.</doc>
   of the source</doc>
           <array length="2"
                  zero-terminated="0"
-                 c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition*">
+                 c:type="const GstAudioChannelPosition*">
             <type name="AudioChannelPosition"
                   c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition"/>
           </array>
@@ -9678,7 +9678,7 @@ of the results.</doc>
   the destination</doc>
           <array length="4"
                  zero-terminated="0"
-                 c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition*">
+                 c:type="const GstAudioChannelPosition*">
             <type name="AudioChannelPosition"
                   c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition"/>
           </array>
@@ -9711,7 +9711,7 @@ channel positions.</doc>
   the destination</doc>
           <array length="2"
                  zero-terminated="0"
-                 c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition*">
+                 c:type="const GstAudioChannelPosition*">
             <type name="AudioChannelPosition"
                   c:type="GstAudioChannelPosition"/>
           </array>
diff --git a/gir-files/GstBase-1.0.gir b/gir-files/GstBase-1.0.gir
index 2fe676c73..6c4c8a1d9 100644
--- a/gir-files/GstBase-1.0.gir
+++ b/gir-files/GstBase-1.0.gir
@@ -1225,7 +1225,12 @@ sent before pushing the buffer.</doc>
           <parameter name="caps" transfer-ownership="none">
             <type name="Gst.Caps" c:type="GstCaps*"/>
           </parameter>
-          <parameter name="ret" transfer-ownership="none">
+          <parameter name="ret"
+                     direction="out"
+                     caller-allocates="0"
+                     transfer-ownership="full"
+                     optional="1"
+                     allow-none="1">
             <type name="Gst.Caps" c:type="GstCaps**"/>
           </parameter>
         </parameters>
@@ -1610,7 +1615,12 @@ _finish_buffer from inside that function.</doc>
             <parameter name="caps" transfer-ownership="none">
               <type name="Gst.Caps" c:type="GstCaps*"/>
             </parameter>
-            <parameter name="ret" transfer-ownership="none">
+            <parameter name="ret"
+                       direction="out"
+                       caller-allocates="0"
+                       transfer-ownership="full"
+                       optional="1"
+                       allow-none="1">
               <type name="Gst.Caps" c:type="GstCaps**"/>
             </parameter>
           </parameters>
@@ -6816,7 +6826,7 @@ into 8, 16, 32 and 64 bit variables.</doc>
       <field name="data" writable="1">
         <doc xml:space="preserve">Data from which the bit reader will
   read</doc>
-        <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+        <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
           <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
         </array>
       </field>
@@ -7002,7 +7012,7 @@ can be called on already initialized instances.</doc>
           </instance-parameter>
           <parameter name="data" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">data from which the bit reader should read</doc>
-            <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+            <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
               <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -7174,7 +7184,7 @@ Free-function: gst_bit_reader_free</doc>
           <parameter name="data" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">Data from which the #GstBitReader
   should read</doc>
-            <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+            <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
               <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -7195,7 +7205,7 @@ in various character encodings.</doc>
       <field name="data" writable="1">
         <doc xml:space="preserve">Data from which the bit reader will
   read</doc>
-        <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+        <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
           <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
         </array>
       </field>
@@ -7393,7 +7403,7 @@ updates the current position.</doc>
                      transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">address of a
     #guint8 pointer variable in which to store the result</doc>
-            <array length="0" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8**">
+            <array length="0" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8**">
               <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8*"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -7741,7 +7751,7 @@ This function will fail if no NUL-terminator was found in in the data.</doc>
                      transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">address of a
     #gchar pointer variable in which to store the result</doc>
-            <array c:type="gchar**">
+            <array c:type="const gchar**">
               <type name="utf8" c:type="gchar*"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -7987,7 +7997,7 @@ can be called on already initialized instances.</doc>
           <parameter name="data" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">data from which
     the #GstByteReader should read</doc>
-            <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+            <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
               <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -8131,7 +8141,7 @@ keeps the current position.</doc>
                      transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">address of a
     #guint8 pointer variable in which to store the result</doc>
-            <array length="0" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8**">
+            <array length="0" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8**">
               <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8*"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -8447,7 +8457,7 @@ This function will fail if no NUL-terminator was found in in the data.</doc>
                      transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">address of a
     #gchar pointer variable in which to store the result</doc>
-            <array c:type="gchar**">
+            <array c:type="const gchar**">
               <type name="utf8" c:type="gchar*"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -8785,7 +8795,7 @@ Free-function: gst_byte_reader_free</doc>
           <parameter name="data" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">data from which the
     #GstByteReader should read</doc>
-            <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+            <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
               <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -9026,7 +9036,7 @@ read @size bytes from the #GstByteWriter from the beginning.</doc>
           </instance-parameter>
           <parameter name="data" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">Data to write</doc>
-            <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+            <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
               <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -9275,7 +9285,7 @@ read @size bytes from the #GstByteWriter from the beginning.</doc>
           </instance-parameter>
           <parameter name="data" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">UTF16 string to write</doc>
-            <array c:type="guint16*">
+            <array c:type="const guint16*">
               <type name="guint16" c:type="guint16"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -9295,7 +9305,7 @@ read @size bytes from the #GstByteWriter from the beginning.</doc>
           </instance-parameter>
           <parameter name="data" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">UTF32 string to write</doc>
-            <array c:type="guint32*">
+            <array c:type="const guint32*">
               <type name="guint32" c:type="guint32"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -11903,7 +11913,7 @@ Free-function: gst_bit_reader_free</doc>
         <parameter name="data" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">Data from which the #GstBitReader
   should read</doc>
-          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -11928,7 +11938,7 @@ Free-function: gst_byte_reader_free</doc>
         <parameter name="data" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">data from which the
     #GstByteReader should read</doc>
-          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -12136,7 +12146,7 @@ Free-function: gst_caps_unref</doc>
         </parameter>
         <parameter name="data" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">* a pointer with data to typefind</doc>
-          <array length="2" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array length="2" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -12246,5 +12256,74 @@ Free-function: gst_caps_unref</doc>
         </parameter>
       </parameters>
     </function>
+    <function name="type_find_helper_get_range_full"
+              c:identifier="gst_type_find_helper_get_range_full"
+              version="1.14.3">
+      <doc xml:space="preserve">Utility function to do pull-based typefinding. Unlike gst_type_find_helper()
+however, this function will use the specified function @func to obtain the
+data needed by the typefind functions, rather than operating on a given
+source pad. This is useful mostly for elements like tag demuxers which
+strip off data at the beginning and/or end of a file and want to typefind
+the stripped data stream before adding their own source pad (the specified
+callback can then call the upstream peer pad with offsets adjusted for the
+tag size, for example).
+
+When @extension is not %NULL, this function will first try the typefind
+functions for the given extension, which might speed up the typefinding
+in many cases.</doc>
+      <return-value transfer-ownership="none">
+        <doc xml:space="preserve">the last %GstFlowReturn from pulling a buffer or %GST_FLOW_OK if
+         typefinding was successful.</doc>
+        <type name="Gst.FlowReturn" c:type="GstFlowReturn"/>
+      </return-value>
+      <parameters>
+        <parameter name="obj" transfer-ownership="none">
+          <doc xml:space="preserve">A #GstObject that will be passed as first argument to @func</doc>
+          <type name="Gst.Object" c:type="GstObject*"/>
+        </parameter>
+        <parameter name="parent"
+                   transfer-ownership="none"
+                   nullable="1"
+                   allow-none="1">
+          <doc xml:space="preserve">the parent of @obj or %NULL</doc>
+          <type name="Gst.Object" c:type="GstObject*"/>
+        </parameter>
+        <parameter name="func" transfer-ownership="none" scope="call">
+          <doc xml:space="preserve">A generic #GstTypeFindHelperGetRangeFunction that will
+       be used to access data at random offsets when doing the typefinding</doc>
+          <type name="TypeFindHelperGetRangeFunction"
+                c:type="GstTypeFindHelperGetRangeFunction"/>
+        </parameter>
+        <parameter name="size" transfer-ownership="none">
+          <doc xml:space="preserve">The length in bytes</doc>
+          <type name="guint64" c:type="guint64"/>
+        </parameter>
+        <parameter name="extension"
+                   transfer-ownership="none"
+                   nullable="1"
+                   allow-none="1">
+          <doc xml:space="preserve">extension of the media, or %NULL</doc>
+          <type name="utf8" c:type="const gchar*"/>
+        </parameter>
+        <parameter name="caps"
+                   direction="out"
+                   caller-allocates="0"
+                   transfer-ownership="full">
+          <doc xml:space="preserve">returned caps</doc>
+          <type name="Gst.Caps" c:type="GstCaps**"/>
+        </parameter>
+        <parameter name="prob"
+                   direction="out"
+                   caller-allocates="0"
+                   transfer-ownership="full"
+                   optional="1"
+                   allow-none="1">
+          <doc xml:space="preserve">location to store the probability of the found
+    caps, or %NULL</doc>
+          <type name="Gst.TypeFindProbability"
+                c:type="GstTypeFindProbability*"/>
+        </parameter>
+      </parameters>
+    </function>
   </namespace>
 </repository>
diff --git a/gir-files/GstNet-1.0.gir b/gir-files/GstNet-1.0.gir
index 087d6f3f1..5f317c9b1 100644
--- a/gir-files/GstNet-1.0.gir
+++ b/gir-files/GstNet-1.0.gir
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ MT safe. Caller owns return value (gst_net_time_packet_free to free).</doc>
         <parameters>
           <parameter name="buffer" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">a buffer from which to construct the packet, or NULL</doc>
-            <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+            <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
               <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
diff --git a/gir-files/GstPbutils-1.0.gir b/gir-files/GstPbutils-1.0.gir
index bf76a6302..8c47cfc44 100644
--- a/gir-files/GstPbutils-1.0.gir
+++ b/gir-files/GstPbutils-1.0.gir
@@ -831,7 +831,7 @@ gst_discoverer_stream_info_list_free().</doc>
 containing informations about how to install the various missing elements
 for @info to be usable. If you wish to use the strings after the life-time
 of @info, you will need to copy them.</doc>
-          <array c:type="gchar**">
+          <array c:type="const gchar**">
             <type name="utf8"/>
           </array>
         </return-value>
@@ -2747,7 +2747,7 @@ in debugging.</doc>
       <type name="gint" c:type="gint"/>
     </constant>
     <constant name="PLUGINS_BASE_VERSION_MICRO"
-              value="2"
+              value="4"
               c:type="GST_PLUGINS_BASE_VERSION_MICRO">
       <doc xml:space="preserve">The micro version of GStreamer's gst-plugins-base libraries at compile time.</doc>
       <type name="gint" c:type="gint"/>
@@ -2785,7 +2785,7 @@ If mpegversion is 4, the "base-profile" field is also set in @caps.</doc>
           <doc xml:space="preserve">a pointer to the AudioSpecificConfig
                as specified in the Elementary Stream Descriptor (esds)
                in ISO/IEC 14496-1. (See below for more details)</doc>
-          <array length="2" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array length="2" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -2809,7 +2809,7 @@ Since 1.10</doc>
           <doc xml:space="preserve">a pointer to the AudioSpecificConfig
                as specified in the Elementary Stream Descriptor (esds)
                in ISO/IEC 14496-1.</doc>
-          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -2860,7 +2860,7 @@ determined.</doc>
           <doc xml:space="preserve">a pointer to the AudioSpecificConfig
                as specified in the Elementary Stream Descriptor (esds)
                in ISO/IEC 14496-1.</doc>
-          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -2887,7 +2887,7 @@ determined.</doc>
           <doc xml:space="preserve">a pointer to the AudioSpecificConfig
                as specified in the Elementary Stream Descriptor (esds)
                in ISO/IEC 14496-1.</doc>
-          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -2912,7 +2912,7 @@ Since 1.10</doc>
           <doc xml:space="preserve">a pointer to the AudioSpecificConfig
                as specified in the Elementary Stream Descriptor (esds)
                in ISO/IEC 14496-1.</doc>
-          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -2954,7 +2954,7 @@ for more details on the parameters.</doc>
         </parameter>
         <parameter name="sps" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">Pointer to the sequence parameter set for the stream.</doc>
-          <array length="2" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array length="2" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -2976,7 +2976,7 @@ same format as for gst_codec_utils_h264_get_profile().</doc>
       <parameters>
         <parameter name="sps" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">Pointer to the sequence parameter set for the stream.</doc>
-          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -3023,7 +3023,7 @@ byte.
       <parameters>
         <parameter name="sps" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">Pointer to the sequence parameter set for the stream.</doc>
-          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -3053,7 +3053,7 @@ Since 1.4</doc>
         <parameter name="profile_tier_level" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">Pointer to the profile_tier_level
   struct</doc>
-          <array length="2" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array length="2" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -3078,7 +3078,7 @@ Since 1.4</doc>
         <parameter name="profile_tier_level" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">Pointer to the profile_tier_level
   for the stream</doc>
-          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -3132,7 +3132,7 @@ Since 1.4</doc>
         <parameter name="profile_tier_level" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">Pointer to the profile_tier_level
   structure for the stream.</doc>
-          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -3157,7 +3157,7 @@ Since 1.4</doc>
         <parameter name="profile_tier_level" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">Pointer to the profile_tier_level
   for the stream.</doc>
-          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -3185,7 +3185,7 @@ parameters.</doc>
         <parameter name="vis_obj_seq" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">Pointer to the visual object
   sequence for the stream.</doc>
-          <array length="2" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array length="2" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -3209,7 +3209,7 @@ object sequence start code. Only the first byte
         <parameter name="vis_obj_seq" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">Pointer to the visual object
   sequence for the stream.</doc>
-          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -3233,7 +3233,7 @@ object sequence start code. Only the first byte
         <parameter name="vis_obj_seq" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">Pointer to the visual object
   sequence for the stream.</doc>
-          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -3278,7 +3278,7 @@ invalid Opus caps.</doc>
                    nullable="1"
                    allow-none="1">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">the mapping between the streams</doc>
-          <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -3341,7 +3341,7 @@ invalid Opus caps.</doc>
                    nullable="1"
                    allow-none="1">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">the mapping between the streams</doc>
-          <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -3408,7 +3408,7 @@ invalid Opus caps.</doc>
                    caller-allocates="0"
                    transfer-ownership="full">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">the mapping between the streams</doc>
-          <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8" fixed-size="256">
+          <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*" fixed-size="256">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -3467,7 +3467,7 @@ invalid Opus caps.</doc>
                    caller-allocates="0"
                    transfer-ownership="full">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">the mapping between the streams</doc>
-          <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8" fixed-size="256">
+          <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*" fixed-size="256">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -3545,7 +3545,7 @@ installed but no suitable video decoder and no suitable audio decoder).</doc>
         <parameter name="details" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">NULL-terminated array
     of installer string details (see below)</doc>
-          <array c:type="gchar**">
+          <array c:type="const gchar* const*">
             <type name="utf8" c:type="gchar*"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -3630,7 +3630,7 @@ gst_install_plugins_async() instead of this function.</doc>
         <parameter name="details" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">NULL-terminated array
     of installer string details</doc>
-          <array c:type="gchar**">
+          <array c:type="const gchar* const*">
             <type name="utf8" c:type="gchar*"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
diff --git a/gir-files/GstRtsp-1.0.gir b/gir-files/GstRtsp-1.0.gir
index 19dcbf6a0..30bbf45d8 100644
--- a/gir-files/GstRtsp-1.0.gir
+++ b/gir-files/GstRtsp-1.0.gir
@@ -2527,7 +2527,7 @@ all matching headers will be removed.</doc>
           </instance-parameter>
           <parameter name="data" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">the data</doc>
-            <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+            <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
               <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -4126,7 +4126,7 @@ are reached. #GST_RTSP_EINTR when @watch was flushing.</doc>
           </instance-parameter>
           <parameter name="data" transfer-ownership="full">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">the data to queue</doc>
-            <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+            <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
               <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
diff --git a/gir-files/GstSdp-1.0.gir b/gir-files/GstSdp-1.0.gir
index b877d9006..2d7f05759 100644
--- a/gir-files/GstSdp-1.0.gir
+++ b/gir-files/GstSdp-1.0.gir
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ parameters to decrypt and verify the data.</doc>
           </parameter>
           <parameter name="data" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">the encrypted envelope key</doc>
-            <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+            <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
               <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ parameters to decrypt and verify the data.</doc>
           </parameter>
           <parameter name="rand" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">random data</doc>
-            <array length="0" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+            <array length="0" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
               <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ parameters to decrypt and verify the data.</doc>
           </parameter>
           <parameter name="ts_value" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">The timestamp value of the specified @type</doc>
-            <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+            <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
               <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -857,7 +857,7 @@ payload.</doc>
           </parameter>
           <parameter name="vf_data" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">the Valid From data</doc>
-            <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+            <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
               <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -867,7 +867,7 @@ payload.</doc>
           </parameter>
           <parameter name="vt_data" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">the Valid To data</doc>
-            <array length="2" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+            <array length="2" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
               <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -897,7 +897,7 @@ payload.</doc>
           </parameter>
           <parameter name="key_data" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">the key of type @key_type</doc>
-            <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+            <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
               <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -926,7 +926,7 @@ salt data will be removed.</doc>
                      nullable="1"
                      allow-none="1">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">the salt</doc>
-            <array length="0" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+            <array length="0" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
               <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -951,7 +951,7 @@ salt data will be removed.</doc>
           </parameter>
           <parameter name="spi_data" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">the SPI/MKI data</doc>
-            <array length="0" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+            <array length="0" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
               <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -981,7 +981,7 @@ salt data will be removed.</doc>
           </parameter>
           <parameter name="data" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">the encrypted envelope key</doc>
-            <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+            <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
               <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -1006,7 +1006,7 @@ salt data will be removed.</doc>
           </parameter>
           <parameter name="rand" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">random values</doc>
-            <array length="0" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+            <array length="0" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
               <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -1036,7 +1036,7 @@ and @val.</doc>
           </parameter>
           <parameter name="val" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">@len bytes of data</doc>
-            <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+            <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
               <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -1141,7 +1141,7 @@ at @idx.</doc>
           </parameter>
           <parameter name="ts_value" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">the timestamp value</doc>
-            <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+            <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
               <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -2794,7 +2794,7 @@ gst_sdp_media_init() before it can be used again.</doc>
           </parameter>
           <parameter name="repeat" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">the repeat times</doc>
-            <array c:type="gchar**">
+            <array c:type="const gchar**">
               <type name="utf8" c:type="gchar*"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -3917,7 +3917,7 @@ stack and initialized with gst_sdp_message_init().</doc>
         <parameters>
           <parameter name="data" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">the start of the buffer</doc>
-            <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+            <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
               <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -4053,7 +4053,7 @@ a conference session.</doc>
           </parameter>
           <parameter name="repeat" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">the repeat times</doc>
-            <array c:type="gchar**">
+            <array c:type="const gchar**">
               <type name="utf8" c:type="gchar*"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -4273,7 +4273,7 @@ a=rtcp-fb:(payload) (param1) [param2]...</doc>
       <parameters>
         <parameter name="data" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">the start of the buffer</doc>
-          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
diff --git a/gir-files/GstTag-1.0.gir b/gir-files/GstTag-1.0.gir
index 4307b88cd..ebda563c5 100644
--- a/gir-files/GstTag-1.0.gir
+++ b/gir-files/GstTag-1.0.gir
@@ -1039,7 +1039,7 @@ WINDOWS-1252/ISO-8859-1 is assumed (which will almost always succeed).</doc>
       <parameters>
         <parameter name="data" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">string data</doc>
-          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="gchar*">
+          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const gchar*">
             <type name="gchar"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -1050,7 +1050,7 @@ WINDOWS-1252/ISO-8859-1 is assumed (which will almost always succeed).</doc>
         <parameter name="env_vars" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">
    a NULL-terminated string array of environment variable names, or NULL</doc>
-          <array c:type="gchar**">
+          <array c:type="const gchar**">
             <type name="utf8" c:type="gchar*"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -1391,7 +1391,7 @@ data (we can't trust the declared mime type).</doc>
       <parameters>
         <parameter name="image_data" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">the (encoded) image</doc>
-          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -1423,7 +1423,7 @@ more information on image tags in GStreamer.</doc>
         </parameter>
         <parameter name="image_data" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">the (encoded) image</doc>
-          <array length="2" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array length="2" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -1505,7 +1505,7 @@ vorbiscomment packet.</doc>
       <parameters>
         <parameter name="data" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">data to convert</doc>
-          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array length="1" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -1515,7 +1515,7 @@ vorbiscomment packet.</doc>
         </parameter>
         <parameter name="id_data" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">identification data at start of stream</doc>
-          <array length="3" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array length="3" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -1551,7 +1551,7 @@ vorbiscomment packet.</doc>
         </parameter>
         <parameter name="id_data" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">identification data at start of stream</doc>
-          <array length="2" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array length="2" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -1596,7 +1596,7 @@ parsed data.</doc>
       <parameters>
         <parameter name="data" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">128 bytes of data containing the ID3v1 tag</doc>
-          <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*" fixed-size="128">
+          <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*" fixed-size="128">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -1655,7 +1655,7 @@ is put in the beginning of the buffer.</doc>
         </parameter>
         <parameter name="id_data" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">identification data at start of stream</doc>
-          <array length="2" zero-terminated="0" c:type="guint8*">
+          <array length="2" zero-terminated="0" c:type="const guint8*">
             <type name="guint8" c:type="guint8"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -1693,7 +1693,7 @@ be used</doc>
         <parameter name="schemas" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">
     %NULL terminated array of schemas to be used on serialization</doc>
-          <array c:type="gchar**">
+          <array c:type="const gchar**">
             <type name="utf8" c:type="gchar*"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
diff --git a/gir-files/GstVideo-1.0.gir b/gir-files/GstVideo-1.0.gir
index 41bc9b77c..7804149fa 100644
--- a/gir-files/GstVideo-1.0.gir
+++ b/gir-files/GstVideo-1.0.gir
@@ -1880,7 +1880,7 @@ Performs the multiplication, meta-&gt;matrix X matrix.</doc>
           </instance-parameter>
           <parameter name="matrix" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">a 4x4 transformation matrix to be applied</doc>
-            <type name="gfloat" c:type="const gfloat"/>
+            <type name="gfloat" c:type="const gfloat*"/>
           </parameter>
         </parameters>
       </method>
@@ -2151,7 +2151,7 @@ supports all the video bufferpool options.</doc>
                      nullable="1"
                      allow-none="1">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">pixel lines</doc>
-            <type name="gpointer" c:type="gpointer"/>
+            <type name="gpointer" c:type="gpointer*"/>
           </parameter>
           <parameter name="width" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">the number of pixels on one line</doc>
@@ -2814,7 +2814,7 @@ the component values in range [0.0 .. 1.0] back to their representation in
                      caller-allocates="1"
                      transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">output offsets</doc>
-            <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="gint" fixed-size="4">
+            <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="gint*" fixed-size="4">
               <type name="gint" c:type="gint"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -2823,7 +2823,7 @@ the component values in range [0.0 .. 1.0] back to their representation in
                      caller-allocates="1"
                      transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">output scale</doc>
-            <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="gint" fixed-size="4">
+            <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="gint*" fixed-size="4">
               <type name="gint" c:type="gint"/>
             </array>
           </parameter>
@@ -4532,7 +4532,7 @@ performance is achived when @quantizer is a power of 2.
           </parameter>
           <parameter name="quantizer" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">quantizer</doc>
-            <type name="guint" c:type="guint"/>
+            <type name="guint" c:type="guint*"/>
           </parameter>
           <parameter name="width" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">the width of the lines</doc>
@@ -6758,11 +6758,11 @@ formats this means that a complete pixel needs to be packed.</doc>
                    nullable="1"
                    allow-none="1">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">pointers to the destination data planes</doc>
-          <type name="gpointer" c:type="gpointer"/>
+          <type name="gpointer" c:type="gpointer*"/>
         </parameter>
         <parameter name="stride" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">strides of the destination planes</doc>
-          <type name="gint" c:type="const gint"/>
+          <type name="gint" c:type="const gint*"/>
         </parameter>
         <parameter name="chroma_site" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">the chroma siting of the target when subsampled (not used)</doc>
@@ -6816,11 +6816,11 @@ separate step after unpacking.</doc>
                    nullable="1"
                    allow-none="1">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">pointers to the data planes</doc>
-          <type name="gpointer" c:type="const gpointer"/>
+          <type name="gpointer" c:type="const gpointer*"/>
         </parameter>
         <parameter name="stride" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">strides of the planes</doc>
-          <type name="gint" c:type="const gint"/>
+          <type name="gint" c:type="const gint*"/>
         </parameter>
         <parameter name="x" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">the x position in the image to start from</doc>
@@ -7172,7 +7172,7 @@ All video planes of @buffer will be mapped and the pointers will be set in
                 c:type="GstVideoGLTextureUploadMeta*"/>
         </parameter>
         <parameter name="texture_id" transfer-ownership="none">
-          <type name="guint" c:type="guint"/>
+          <type name="guint" c:type="guint*"/>
         </parameter>
       </parameters>
     </callback>
@@ -7233,7 +7233,7 @@ to upload something to an OpenGL texture.</doc>
           </instance-parameter>
           <parameter name="texture_id" transfer-ownership="none">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">the texture IDs to upload to</doc>
-            <type name="guint" c:type="guint"/>
+            <type name="guint" c:type="guint*"/>
           </parameter>
         </parameters>
       </method>
@@ -10470,7 +10470,7 @@ gst_video_scaler_get_info().</doc>
                      nullable="1"
                      allow-none="1">
             <doc xml:space="preserve">source pixels lines</doc>
-            <type name="gpointer" c:type="gpointer"/>
+            <type name="gpointer" c:type="gpointer*"/>
           </parameter>
           <parameter name="dest"
                      transfer-ownership="none"
@@ -11484,7 +11484,7 @@ parameters.</doc>
         </parameter>
         <parameter name="texture_type" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">array of #GstVideoGLTextureType</doc>
-          <type name="VideoGLTextureType" c:type="GstVideoGLTextureType"/>
+          <type name="VideoGLTextureType" c:type="GstVideoGLTextureType*"/>
         </parameter>
         <parameter name="upload"
                    transfer-ownership="none"
@@ -12566,7 +12566,7 @@ not contain a valid chroma description.</doc>
                    nullable="1"
                    allow-none="1">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">pixel lines</doc>
-          <type name="gpointer" c:type="gpointer"/>
+          <type name="gpointer" c:type="gpointer*"/>
         </parameter>
         <parameter name="width" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">the number of pixels on one line</doc>
@@ -12725,7 +12725,7 @@ the component values in range [0.0 .. 1.0] back to their representation in
                    caller-allocates="1"
                    transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">output offsets</doc>
-          <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="gint" fixed-size="4">
+          <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="gint*" fixed-size="4">
             <type name="gint" c:type="gint"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -12734,7 +12734,7 @@ the component values in range [0.0 .. 1.0] back to their representation in
                    caller-allocates="1"
                    transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">output scale</doc>
-          <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="gint" fixed-size="4">
+          <array zero-terminated="0" c:type="gint*" fixed-size="4">
             <type name="gint" c:type="gint"/>
           </array>
         </parameter>
@@ -12953,7 +12953,7 @@ performance is achived when @quantizer is a power of 2.
         </parameter>
         <parameter name="quantizer" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">quantizer</doc>
-          <type name="guint" c:type="guint"/>
+          <type name="guint" c:type="guint*"/>
         </parameter>
         <parameter name="width" transfer-ownership="none">
           <doc xml:space="preserve">the width of the lines</doc>