GStreamer rtspsrc stops working once 32 streams have been created - gstreamer

Question

I have a device running embedded linux that can show RTSP streams from a camera. The user can change the stream from a windowed stream to a full screen stream, and vice versa. If the stream is changed 32 times, the stream stops working. I have possibly narrowed down the problem to the rtspsrc itself.
My question is, how does one clear the memory for the gst "stuff" without re-starting the program?
If I use gst-launch-1.0 with the pipeline, it works for more than 32 re-starts because the program is being killed every time.
However, if I run my program and increase the rtspsrc to 31 (by switching between the two streams), and then run gst-launch-1.0 with a rtsp pipeline, the steam does not show up! It appears that until every program that is using gst is killed, the rtspsrc will not reset back to 0.
I enabled debugging the rtspsrc:
export GST_DEBUG="rtspsrc:6"
Lots of log messages are shown each time the stream is started. They print the rtspsrcX, which increases even though the previous stream is stopped:
First run log print:
**rtspsrc gstrtspsrc.c:8834:gst_rtspsrc_print_sdp_media:<rtspsrc0> RTSP response message**
Second run:
**rtspsrc gstrtspsrc.c:8855:gst_rtspsrc_print_sdp_media:<rtspsrc1> RTSP response message**
Continue stopping/starting the stream, and it increases up to 31, at which point the stream no longer shows up:
**rtspsrc gstrtspsrc.c:8855:gst_rtspsrc_print_sdp_media:<rtspsrc31> RTSP response message**
I'm not sure how to "reset" the stream each time the user stops it. It seems that gst can't release memory unless I kill the whole program (all programs using gst).
I have tried creating a new context each time the stream is re-started, but this doesn't help.
When I call gst_is_initialized each subsequent time, it returns true.
The main loop is stopped by calling the following from another thread:
g_main_loop_quit(loop_);
The video feeds are controlled with the following:
GMainLoop *loop_;
pipeline = "rtspsrc location=rtsp://192.168.0.243/0 latency=0 ! rtph264depay ! h264parse ! imxvpudec ! imxipuvideosink window-width=512 window-height=384 sync=false"
or
pipeline = "rtspsrc location=rtsp://192.168.0.243/0 latency=0 ! rtph264depay ! h264parse ! imxvpudec ! imxipuvideosink window-width=1024 window-height=768 sync=false"
void stream_video(std::string pipeline)
{
GMainContext* context;
GstElement *pipelineElement;
GstBus *bus = NULL;
guint bus_watch_id = 0;
GstState state;
try
{
if(!gst_is_initialized())
{
std::cout << "GST Is not initialized - initializing " << pipeline.c_str();
gst_init_check(nullptr,nullptr,nullptr);
}
context = g_main_contextnew(); // Creating a new context to see if the camera can be started more than 32 times, but the rtspsrc still increases when debugging
loop_ = g_main_loopnew (context, FALSE);
pipelineElement = gst_parse_launch(pipeline.c_str(), NULL);
bus = gst_pipeline_get_bus (GST_PIPELINE (pipelineElement));
bus_watch_id = gst_bus_add_watch (bus, bus_call, loop_);
gst_object_unref (bus);
bus = NULL;
gst_element_set_state(pipelineElement, GST_STATE_READY );
gst_element_set_state(pipelineElement, GST_STATE_PAUSED );
gst_element_set_state(pipelineElement, GST_STATE_PLAYING);
if (gst_element_get_state (pipelineElement, &state, NULL, 2*GST_SECOND) == GST_STATE_CHANGE_FAILURE)
{
std::cout << "gst: Failed to chage states State:" << state << " ID: " << stream_id_;
}
else
{
std::cout << "gst: Running..." << " ID: " << stream_id_ << " State:" << state << " Loop:" << loop_;
g_main_looprun (loop_); // blocks until loop_ exits (EOS, error, stop request)
}
gst_element_set_state(pipelineElement, GST_STATE_PAUSED);
gst_element_set_state(pipelineElement, GST_STATE_READY );
gst_element_set_state(pipelineElement, GST_STATE_NULL); // Can only switch between certian states, see https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/additional/design/states.html?gi-language=c
g_source_remove (bus_watch_id);
std::cout << "gst: Removing pipelineElement " << pipelineElement;
gst_object_unref (GST_OBJECT (pipelineElement));
pipelineElement = NULL;
g_main_contextunref (context);
context = NULL;
g_main_loopunref (loop_);
loop_ = nullptr;
std::cout << "gst: Deleted pipeline" << " ID: " << stream_id_ << " State: " << state;
}
catch(const std::exception& e)
{
std::cout << "Error Caught: stream_video " << e.what();
}
return;
}