RTW movie cam broken in 1.5

[Crian]

I've browsed at the totalwar.com forums, TWCenter.net, and here to find answers but to no avail so I'm posting this in the hope that someone will answer.

This is regarding the RTW movie editor. While -movie_cam works perfectly well in that I can replay battles and record footage, -movie_cam:capture_ video seems to be broken. I follow the tutorial to the letter but no such rendering occurs and the replay simply reloads.... no errors, no CTD, absolutely nothing.

I have RTW with BI patched to 1.6, and many people have had the same problem before. Over at TWCenter, there are threads reporting the same problem with NO replies .... there is some discussion about it and they've come to the conclusion that it's broken in RTW 1.5 and BI... but I'm not ready to give up.

Anyone here who has successfully rendered videos in RTW 1.5 and/or BI? I know there are mods for BI 1.6 who have made trailers using the movie_cam. Please help, even a confirmation from someone that this problem exists would help.

EDIT: Oh and here are some examples of some threads I dug up reporting the same problem - thread 1, thread 2, thread 3 - there are more of those threads over there. Please someone help....