On the iPad app swipe up and down on the left to control brightness and up and down on the right to control volume. This is the main reason I use Infuse. Would prefer to use Plex though because it has DB backend support for a massive library and Infuse is slower.
There’s already an existing suggestion discussing the addition of gestures for brightness, volume and other aspects. I suggest you comment/vote in that thread in order to help us avoid distracting or cannibalizing votes. Unless I’m missing some unique aspect of this suggestion I’ll close it as a duplicate.