Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The creators of the Ogg format state that it is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia. "Ogg" is derived from "ogging", jargon from the computer game Netrek: 3.3 Ogging: This is the art of killing a carrier, or potential carrier, by a suicide run. The Ogg container format can multiplex a number of independent streams for audio, video, text (such as subtitles), and metadata.