If you're the sort of person who likes to watch TV with closed captioning on, you may have noticed that most internet video has one thing missing: subtitles. Whether you're watching YouTube, Hulu, or Joost, odds are the only time you'll see subtitles are when someone uploads a foreign language video and feels like taking the time 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 select your language of choice. If subtitles are available in your language, they'll show up on selected videos.

The problem is right now there are almost 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 this is a community driven project, there's an easy fix for that problem. Anyone can sign up for a SubJoost account and start creating their own subtitles. So get crackin already, will you?

[via Mashable]