whether you’re the sort of person who likes to watch TV with closed captioning on, you may have noticed that most Net video has one thing lost: subtitles. Whether you’re watching YouTube, Hulu, or Joost, odds are the only instance you’ll see subtitles are when someone uploads a foreign language video and feels like taking the moment to add English subtitles (or vice versa). In other words, there’s no option to turn subtitles on and off. They’re either there or they’re not.

SubJoost is a community driven Joost plugin that lets you turn on and create subtitles for any video served up by Joost. Just install

the widget and choose your language of choice. whether subtitles are available in your language, they’ll show up on selected videos.

The problem is right now there are nearly no videos with subtitles available. While there’s a list of subtitled videos on the SubJoost web page, we found that very few of these movies and TV shows actually have more than a handful of captions. But since that is a community driven project, there’s an easy fix for that problem. Anyone can sign up for a SubJoost detail and start creating their own subtitles. So get crackin already, will you?

[via Mashable]

Original post by Brad Linder