Annoying screen dims when paused on apple tv

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I can’t get access to preview as the beta is full, but I hope that the screen no longer dims when pausing video on the tvOS plex app. Super annoying how when i paused content that is playing the screen dims out a little. Hit play and you get full brightness back. Many times pausing a video is intentionally done at a specific point in video to take a closer look at something, yet with Plex it dims out the scene a bit when paused so you can’t view it in full brightness. This makes no sense and needs to get resolved.

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See my reply here:

You can locate the BIF file, and rename/move/delete it, and the video when paused will not change in brightness.

The screen is dimmed when a preview thumbnail is shown. I think the devs forgot to undim it once the preview times out and the GUI overlay goes.

The BIF files can be located here:

Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Media/localhost/[0-9]/[a-z0-9]{39}.bundle/Contents/Indexes/index-sd.bif

function plex_list_bifs() {
    set +o posix
    cd "/<INSERT_PATH_PLEX_HERE>/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Media/localhost/" || return
    echo -e "\033[48;5;166;97;1m Finding all BIF files: \033[0m"
    find . -type f -name \*.bif -print0 | \
        du -cbs --files0-from=- | \
        tee >(gawk '{a+=$1} END{printf "%d\n%d\n", a/NR, NR}' ) | \
        numfmt --from-unit=1 --to=iec-i --suffix=B --format %.3f --field 1 --padding=10
    cd "$OLDPWD" || return
}

On the web Plex client, Get Info, then View XML, you will see the XML tag indexes="sd" if there are preview thumbnails (i.e. an index-sd.bif).