When I play my movie, why is it displayed at an offset from the created axes?

When I play my movie in MATLAB, why is it displayed at an offset from the created axes?

For example,

Z = peaks(50);
hfig = figure;
hsurf = mesh(Z);
t=linspace(0,2*pi,16);
set(gca,'zlim',[-10 10]);
for i = 1:15,
        Zi = Z.*cos(t(i));
        set(hsurf,'zdata',Zi,'cdata',Zi);
        M(i) = getframe(hfig);
end;
movie(M);

Why does playing this movie seem to create a new axes and display the movie at an offset from the created axes?

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

This enhancement has been incorporated in Release 2006b (R2006b). For previous product releases, read below for any possible workarounds:

When playing a movie, the default location of the output is in the current axes, and not the current figure. To force it to play in a specified figure, the handle to the figure needs to be passed to the MOVIE function. This will prevent MOVIE from creating a set of axes and playing the frames inside of the axes. For example,

Z = peaks(50);
hfig = figure;
hsurf = mesh(Z);
t=linspace(0,2*pi,16);
set(gca,'zlim',[-10 10]);
for i = 1:15,
        Zi = Z.*cos(t(i));
        set(hsurf,'zdata',Zi,'cdata',Zi);
        M(i) = getframe(hfig);
end;
figure
movie(gcf,M);

This method of calling MOVIE is described in the documentation that can be found at the following URL:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/movie.html