Why does video dim out when paused on apple tv? fix this

This only occurs if you have generated video preview thumbnails for it.

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/[0-9a-f]/[0-9a-f]{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).