> As someone who's not deep into AV1, but watching interested from outside, I can say that communication is not ideal. That former announcement was PR/Marketin

> As someone who's not deep into AV1, but watching interested from outside, I can say that communication is not ideal. That former announcement was PR/Marketing only. The devs (all the ones I saw) didn't know it was coming. Yes, the bitstream is frozen. I can't find an HTML version for some reason, but this page links to the finalized 1.0 version of the spec: https://aomediacodec.github.io/av1-spec/ https://aomediacodec.github.io/av1-spec/