VLC doesn’t seem to be playing nicely with this for me (it does not like Blu-rays with menus). I did my testing on PS4, PS3, PowerDVD, and Total Media Theatre. Your vlc may be set up better than mine, though.
You can definitely watch the m2ts files in VLC. But everything up to and through the crawl is a separate m2ts. So you’d need to click the next one when it’s done, or make a playlist or something. Or wait for an MKV. 😃
So I just tried it (even though it’s still downloading 😃).
I loaded VLC and did “open folder” and selected the whole thing. It queued up a playlist on it’s own, and added both crawl’s (0000, then 0001, then 0002 m2ts files).
Anyway, that’s good enough for me. I’m sure I could set it up to skip one or whatever. I don’t know which one I’d prefer. I didn’t even know there were 2 of them until this thread (ya, I’m a noob when it comes to this original trilogy stuff!).
Thanks again.
edit (sorry, too much of a noob to say Jedit): Those using VLC. There is another (way).
Media->open disc. Then in the dialog that opens, pick Blu-ray radio button (keep the “no menu” checkbox checked), then browse, then go to and select the main “Harmy’s Star Wars Despecialized 2.6 (Towne32)” folder, then click “Select Folder” button.
It then more seamlessly plays just 1 crawl and then the main film (without closing the window and opening it again like it does with playlists).
In this case it chooses the “A NEW HOPE” crawl. I’m guessing if I just rename the m2ts file to something else it would skip it and play the other file.
Ok tried it. Just renaming the 0000.m2ts file to something doesn’t work. But if you rename the 0001.m2ts file to 0000.m2ts (and name the original 0000.m2ts to something else first), then it works.