Originally posted by: s7en
Now this is more like it. Someones posted the original H264 version at alt.binaries.hdtv.repost

"Titel...............................: Star.Wars.Episode.4.Eine.Neue.Hoffnung.HDTV.1080i.H264.German.AC3.DL
Erscheinungsdatum...................: 1977
Format (MPEG 4,H.264/AVC)...........: MKV / Mpeg4 AVC
Codec...............................: H264
Formatinfos (Aufloesung/FPS/etc. )..: 1920x1080 interlaced / 25 FPS
Source..............................: 1080i H264 TS / AC3 German : PAL DVD
Soundformat.........................: AC3 Dolby Digital 5.1 / 2.0
Videobitrate........................: 12336 Kbps Average
Audiobitrate........................: 448 kbps
FSK.................................: 12
Sprachen............................: German / English
Untertitel..........................: -
Spieldauer..........................: 1H 59Min 37Sec"

And Karyudo's right about the filesize, this one's less than half size of the MPG2 recode version.

It looks like the point of this repost was to include German 5.1 audio from the DVD. For that, the poster's used MKV, which allows multiple audio tracks. Is that the only change -- packaging? In other words, is the video stream unaltered, just remuxed?