seek before playback

[b12]

Hey everyone, I recently found this mailing list and am excited to get
involved. I am new to gstreamer, have a big project in front of me and hope
to glean some experience from everyone.  I read through the manual and
searched around before deciding to post a new topic. 

I am attempting to begin playback of a prerecorded file from some midpoint
in the file.

Here is my specs:
/Format: mpegts (mpeg-2TS)
Stream: h264
GStreamer 0.10.36
Linux
c/c++/

Basically here is how my pipeline is setup:
filesrc-> queue->flutsdemux-> ffdec_h264->xvimagesink
So far I have attempted to do this by: 
1)Build my pipeline
2)Set state to PLAYING
3)On the GST_MESSAGE_STATE_CHANGED to PLAYING I attempt my seek. 

Problem I find with this solution is that 9 times out of 10 the seek fails
(dont know why).  The one time out of 10 that it does work I get a ton (50 -
100) qos messages with very bad rendering then after about 5 seconds it
begins playback. 
I understand that the bad rendering may be that I am seeking to a point
between i frames. 

My pipline:
/gst_element_link_many(filesrc, queue, flutsdemux)
gst_element_link_many(ffdecoder, xvsink)
then on the pad-added of the demux signal i'm doing a pad_link to the
decoder. /

the seek:
/GstEvent *seekEvent;
seekEvent = gst_event_new_seek(1.0, GST_FORMAT_TIME, 
                                               GST_SEEK_FLAG_FLUSH | 
                                               GST_SEEK_FLAG_SKIP |
                                               GST_SEEK_FLAG_KEY_UNIT,  //I
have tried different variations of flags
                                               GST_SEEK_TYPE_SET, 
                                               seekToTime, 
                                               GST_SEEK_TYPE_NONE,
                                                GST_CLOCK_TIME_NONE);

gst_element_set_state(m_pipeline, GST_STATE_PAUSED);
if(!gst_element_send_event(m_pipeline, seekEvent))
{
    Logger::warn("seek failed")
}
gst_element_set_state(m_pipeline, GST_STATE_PLAYING);/

Any help or direction anyone can provide would be great. If you want to
point out any misunderstanding I have at this point that would be greatly
appreciated also. 
Sorry if this has already been covered.  
Thanks in advance!



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