1. Is the audio a direct digital extraction of the PCM track off the laserdisc?
2. How are you intending to deal with the missing screen wipe at the end of side 1 of ANH?
BTW, "top field first" should be checked when encoding with CCE 2.70.xx.xx.
1. I don't have the hardware to extract the actual digital track. I wanted to use a Creative Soundblaster Audigy 4 Pro but it wasn't enough. Some sort of signal convertor was needed so I gave that up.
2. Don't know yet. In your transfer it seems there a still image. Was it like that on the laserdisc? On my set the wipe is missing but instead of a still image there's normal video.
If I select "top field first" the video stutters heavily on my tv set.