Movie rental gone wrong

I rented a movie and after it finishes downloading i try to watch it and it says there is an error with the itunes store and to try again later then it begins downloading the same movie over and over again and i deleted it and i rented it again and it happened again.What's wrong?

many thanks.
Perhaps try the "Error 3001," "-42110," or "5103" section in the Specific Conditions and Alert Messages: (Mac OS X / Windows) section of the following document:
iTunes: Advanced iTunes Store troubleshooting

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HT204370 Apple TV iTunes rental gone wrong. No subtitles for French in movie?

I rented a movie of which a third of it is in French... (The Da Vinci Code)...
And there's no option for English subtitles in the list of languages and "auto" did nothing and no default sub titles in English during the French conversations.
*Apple TV*
$4.99 well spent, thanks Apple.
Anything I can do for my next movie rental to ensure I can get subtitles? And not ruin a Friday night?

czernat wrote:
I've just purchased Apple TV and, I'm disappointed that there are no movie rentals in French and that all of the movies I've checked out don't offer subtitles in French. I thought Apple TV would offer the same features that are available on regular DVDs.
that is not an appletv issue, but rather an itunes store issue.
I'm wondering if language and subtitle features are upcoming in ITunes?
no-one here will know what might be added to the itunes store. this is just a user-to-user support forum.
Are there, in fact, any French language movies available in ITunes? And so, how do I find them.
each regional itunes store is different, so it would be impossible for anyone to give an accurate answer unless they were also in the same region as you (and even then they would only have the same access to the store as you do).

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Movie rental section has gone on my ATV (2nd Gen)

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Where has the movie rental section gone in iTunes 11? Have successfully downloaded but then cannot find them to view.

It's gone but this post might help:
turingtest2 London, UK
Re: iTunes 11 removed Display duplicates option Dec 2, 2012 1:41 AM (in response to mdnolton2)
Two Windows scripts to make playlists of Duplicates and Exact Duplicates. Use shift-delete to remove selected tracks from the library as well as the playlist.
There is also my DeDuper script if you don't want to do it by hand. Please take note of the warning to backup your library before deduping.
Enjoy.
tt2
Link: https://discussions.apple.com/message/20454991#20454991

Re I-Movie. "Communication Error" is what I get when I try and send a clip from my Sony camera to the IMovie program in my IMAC 2008 Intel Chips. The IMovie program has worked well for several years - up to now. What has gone wrong?

Re I-MOVIE. I am getting a "Communication Error" when I try and send a clip to the IMovie
program in my IMAC 2008 Intel Chip computer. This is the first time in 3 years that the
program has not worked. What has gone wrong?

Hi
Have no idea - But if it is a new problem with exactly the same kind of material that was previously used. Then my trouble shooting guide might help.
If You
• used a new Camera - file codec might be a sort that don't work
• Your main hard disk might get too filled up
Else try
Trouble
When iMovie doesn't work as intended this can be due to a lot of reasons
• iMovie Pref files got corrupted - trash it/they and iMovie makes new and error free one's
• Creating a new User-Account and log into this - forces iMovie to create all pref. files new and error free
• Event or Project got corrupted - try to make a copy and repair
• a codec is used that doesn't work
• problem in iMovie Cache folder - trash Cache.mov and Cache.plist
• version miss match of QuickTime Player / iMovie / iDVD
• preferences are wrong - Repair Preferences
• other hard disk problem - Repair Hard Disk (Disk Util tool - but start Mac from ext HD or DVD)
• External hard disks - MUST BE - Mac OS Extended (hfs) formatted to work with Video
( UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange - works for most other things - but not for Video )
• USB-flash-memories do not work
• Net-work connected hard disks - do not work
• iPhoto Library got problems - let iPhoto select another one or repair it. Re-build this first then try to re-start iMovie.
This You do by
_ close iPhoto
_ on start up of iPhoto - Keep {cmd and alt-keys down}
_ now select all five options presented
_ WAIT a long long time
• free space on Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk to low (<1Gb) - I never go under 25Gb free space for SD-Video (4-5 times more for HD)
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• GarageBand fix - start GB - play a few notes - Close it again and now try iMovie
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• Turn off Your Mac - and disconnect Mains - for about 20-30 minutes - at least this resets the FireWire port.
• In QuickTime - DivX, 3ivx codec, Flip4Mac, Perian etc - might be problematic - temporarily move them out and re-try
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Movie Rentals and Purchases on IPad - What's wrong with this?

Bought my very first Apple product...(IPad 64G WiFi only) last week.
I intended to use it just to keep me busy reading, watching movies, playing games, on all the long flights to Europe and Asia that I take.
So yesterday I excitedly set up an ITunes account, and downloaded 4 movie rentals, and purchased one other movie (Angels and Demons). All HD. I just figure I'd let it run all night and I'd see the movies the next morning.
The rentals all appear to have downloaded, and they show up in the videos section. HOWEVER, they are ALL marked "Expires in 17 hours". Never started watching any of them, why are they already set to expire? The rental info section of Itunes says I have 30 days to start watching, then 24 hours after that til they expire.
As for the purchased movie, th it appeared stuck on the "tap to retry" icon, which I did several times, with repeated errors, until the download icon simply disappeared and no sign of the dowload status or the actual movie anywhere.
I DID get billed for all of these. This is like 40 bucks worth of stuff.
Everyone who uses MAC stuff always brags about how great it is, how excellent customer service is, how things just "work", etc.
Color me WAY not impressed. No answers to my emails sent through ITunes help (yes, I checked spam folder) and no movies for my flight to China this weekend.
Any suggestions on things to change to make it work better next time? OR just buy a **** portable DVD player for 400 bucks less than an Ipad?

HI Jeffrey and welcome...
Make certain the time and date are correct on your PC.
Click Start and then click Control Panel.
Click "Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options" and then click Date and Time.
Click the Date & Time tab.
Make sure that the date and time settings are configured to use the current date and time and then click OK.
Make sure you are running the latest version of iTunes. http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Check the Firewall.
From the Start menu, choose Control Panel.
If the Control Panel is in Classic View, skip to step 4.
On Windows 7 and Vista, click Security; on Windows XP, click Security Center.
Click Windows Firewall.
On Windows 7 and Vista, click Change Settings; if asked for permission by Windows, click Continue; make sure the “Block all incoming connections” option is *not selected.*
Click the Exceptions tab.
Check the iTunes box.
Click OK.
You can report problems to Apple via the iTunes store. Launch iTunes. Select iTunes Store on the left. On the right side of that window select your account name. In the next window click: Purchase History then click: Report a Problem.
More support options here: http://www.apple.com/support/ipad/contact/
Carolyn

Unwatched movie rental vanished during faulty internet connection

I recently purchased a rented film that I intended to watch in the evening. My internet connection has been erratic in the past week, and whilst it was downloading from the itunes store the connection timed-out. When it came back on I checked for available downloads and it resumed downloading as if nothing had gone wrong. Fine. No problem there.
But then I tried transferring it to my ipod so I could watch part of it there during my commute to work, but the connection timed out a second time. This has happened before when I was transferring over a rental, and the transfer simply stopped. It said film could not be transferred, and it remained in the rental library on the computer.
This time around, it looked on the film tab on the ipod menu as if it had transferred to the ipod, but hadn't been validated. I waited a couple of hours for the internet to come back on, and when I tried syncing with itunes again so the film could be validated, it vanished.
I looked in the ipod menu, I looked in the rental tab of the film library, and I even checked the recycling bin. The film just vanished. I never even clicked play. I'm furious. Thats my money wasted. I can't find it in the purchased playlist, because it was a rental, and there appears to be no option to redownload without paying twice. This is outrageous. I either want a refund or a new copy, but who am I trying to fool? I'm dealing with Apple here, after all...
I need to know if there is a process I can go through to get my copy of the rental back.

Hey safry,
Here are instructions to report an issue with your movie rental:
How to report an issue with your iTunes Store, App Store, Mac App Store, or iBooks Store purchase
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1933
Regards,
Delgadoh

Apple TV (v2) and movie rentals - my experiences, for what it's worth...

I’ve been reading a lot of posts over the past couple of days about problems streaming rented movies, and thought i’d share my experiences as i’ve had a couple of days of head scratching and frustration trying to watch one of my own:
I unwrapped an Apple TV v2 at the weekend, which was a gift form a friend, and tried it out by renting a movie. This was yesterday:
Now I’m a Virgin media customer in the UK, with 10MB broadband (wired), which I figured would be fast enough to easily stream HD video - and sure enough my rental started up and played fine. For about 30 mins...
After this it froze, and gave me the dreaded ‘loading’ dialogue, which showed 7 hours as my wait, and it got longer as the day went on - not shorter.
I gave up, and decided to come back to it later, which of course was a foolish move, as everything that had been buffered was erased and i was back at square one.
I then tried again today and had the exact same problem. After turning on, and being pleasantly surprised to see that my HD rental began streaming perfectly with almost no delay, I was again kicked off after about half an hour.
So i decided to look at my ISP’s terms and conditions, and sure enough there are cap’s on my data traffic of 1.5gb during the day, and 750mb in the evening (until 9pm). Exceed either of these and your traffic speed is cut back by 75% for 5 hours.
So i did some digging, and found that the average HD movie file size is about 4gb. This means that it’s impossible for me to stream and watch a film in one sitting, as i’ll never have enough uncapped bandwidth to stream the whole movie in one hit.
Now some folks have talked about getting ahead of the game, and beginning a download ahead of time (like first thing in the morning) so that by the evening a film is waiting for you no matter how long the download time. But even if this works, you run the risk of losing the buffered file by hitting the wrong button on your apple remote. This to me is unacceptable.
So lets drill down to the details here:
Problem 1: the manner Apple TV v2 stores video. I’m no technical expert, but understand that the latest Apple TV has no hard drive - rather an 8GB flash drive. This would be enough to download and store an HD movie as a semi-permanent file, but Apple TV v2 doesn’t do this - it just uses it as a streaming buffer, which is cleared out periodically, and is easy to accidentally lose.
Problem 2: my ISP just won’t allow the amount of data transfer required to stream an HD movie without capping my download speed. Not between 9am and 9pm anyway (i’m going to see if i can stream the end of my film later without the beggars cutting me off).
Problem 2a (more of a gripe): Apple TV doesn’t warn you that the file you’re about to stream when you rent a movie will very likely trigger your ISP’s bandwidth throttling policy. It might be in their small print, but it should be there in big letters at the point of sale, just before you hit ‘buy’.
The Solution: There isn’t a satisfactory one for me really. I don’t imagine I’ll be renting any more movies directly from Apple TV. It’s too pricey to take the risk that I won’t be able to watch it, so back to DVD for me.
Now I could rent or buy through iTunes, and then stream to Apple TV, as at least I’d have a ‘hard copy’ of the movie on my MacBook and would be safe in the knowledge that once i had downloaded the file i could watch it from start to finish without interruption - but this is also less than ideal. I can’t get HD movies from iTunes, i’d have to go through the ‘planning ahead’ phase of starting downloading early in the day, and there’s still no guarantee it wouldn’t trigger the bandwidth throttling if it was a long movie.
The only other solution would be to max out my broadband package, although currently the most expensive package (which costs double what i pay now) still had a 3.5gb cap, so could kick me off just as i’m near the end of the film. Plus, i don’t watch that many films to make the expense worthwhile.
To wrap up...
If you’re on a decent broadband connection that in theory should be able to handle HD streaming then check your ISP’s regs regarding throttling. Even with throttling on, YouTube, iPlayer and other similar sites still worked for me, as they’ll happily cope with reduced transfer speeds. Apple movie rentals won’t. This might explain why some can use these services perfectly at the same time as being unable to view their rental.
If you’re an occasional film watcher in a similar position to me, don’t bother with movie rentals. Unless you’re on an uncapped, unthrottled broadband package it’s unlikely you’ll be able to stream an HD movie in one hit due to the file size.
Back to Blockbuster Video for me i’m afraid. At least until we get NetFlix in the UK
Hope you have more luck than I did,
McGinty

Thanks for the pointers folks. Yeah, 1.5GB is pretty poor isn't it? There are other suppliers, but you have to get a their phone line installed to access the internet so it's an £85 setup fee plus a day off work for a guy to come round and drill a hole in your wall before you even get to the monthly costs.
Don't get me wrong though - I'm certainly not an Apple basher, but am equally frustrated with both them and the ISP.
Virgin Media spend all kinds of money advertising their broadband as the fastest in the UK, but don't tell you (up front anyway) that you'll be cut off if you actually try and use it.
Apple on the other hand carry on with their 'it just works' mantra, but with Apple TV this only applies if you meet certain criteria (again, not mentioned up front).
I guess it aint a biggie, as i was gifted my Apple TV, and love all the other stuff it does, but from the number of posts on this forum can see that there's a lot of angry customers out there who want explanations as to why they're having similar problems to me.
Will be very interesting to see if Apple release any kind of software update that turns the flash drive from a buffer to permanent storage, to at least ease some of the pain...
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ITunes Movie Rental Playback too dark

I have downloaded 100s of GBs of video podcasts, free TV programs, & other free video content from the iTunes Store since I obtained my Mac Mini (Early 2009 2.0GHz-4GB-320GB OSX.6.6, 'iTunes 10.2 (34)') in 11/2010, and they have all played admirably--no complaints--on my 14 year-old Samsung CRT SDTV (connected via Mini-DVI to VGA and this converter box [http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?cid=101&cp_id=10114&cs_id=1011407&pid=4724&seq=1&format=2]. In fact, ANY video (QT, Flash, Silverlight, etc.) I've played on it has displayed wonderfully...this is mainly what the Mini is used for.
(I should note that the Mini shipped with OS 10.6.3, but when I upgraded to 10.6.4, the overall display had a markedly richer, but darker quality to it--enhanced the desktop & apps' appearance, but (as many on these boards at the time decried) added darkness to all video. I went through convulsions re-calibrating the color using the provided system software, but could never quite get back to the as-purchased video luminance, and had to compromise with a "futzed" calibration. Subsequent OS updates have not changed this).
However, last night, for the very first time--and I've had an iTunes account practically since the iTunes Store opened--I decided to make a real purchase, and rent a movie while visiting some friends. I brought my Mini & cables over, plugged into their similar vintage Panasonic SDTV the same way as into mine: via RCA jacks; had done this before to show it off, and everything displayed fine without a hitch. We also both have FiOS broadband internet. Before renting, everything was great--I showed off photos using the OS screen saver, then played with Front Row, watched a Danish cooking show podcast (quality was near normal SDTV), so, everything was functioning properly.
I went into the iTunes Store and ordered the rental for "Inception" (no HD option, and I have iTunes configured to always play SD quality in prefs). Not five minutes after the download began (it said the 2GB+ file would d/l completely in 62 minutes), I double-clicked on the Inception icon to begin playing, and when the video window appeared, clicked the diagonal arrows to go into full screen. Boy, was this video dark! We might have thought it was intentionally produced that way, but one of my friends had seen the film in the theater, so I knew something was wrong. After half an hour of suffering (could not make out details at all--we were actually missing plot items), I paused the movie, and went into display prefs to try to lighten things up--didn't have time to do a full-blown re-calibration, but I unchecked "Show profiles for this display only" and picked a non-specific profile that was the brightest. It helped some, but at that point I figured I'd never rent from iTunes again...really a waste of $4 (beforehand, my friends were going to get the DVD from Redbox for $1, and told them the $3 savings would not be worth it).
After 90 minutes or so, I attempted to rewind a bit on the Apple Remote (old white version) as I had already done many times--but this time I supposed I held the "back" button too long, and the movie display disappeared completely. "WhaddidIdo?" So, I double-clicked the Inception icon in iTunes Rentals again, maximized to full screen, and was rather confused--the new movie window was SO BRIGHT AND FULL OF PREVIOUSLY UNSEEN DETAIL that I had trouble finding where I had originally intended to rewind to...the difference was so great, it seemed like a different film! "Don't touch anything else now!" my friends implored: "Leave it like that! That's how it looked in the theater."
WHUHAPPEND?
After the film's end, I stopped it just as the credits began, and went back to watch the beginning again...watched for half an hour or so to get what we had missed in the darkness. Then, being late, stopped it and shut down, intending to watch more of it at home before the file expired this evening. Despite the late hour, I couldn't resist hooking up my Mini at home again and trying it out. BUMMER. I could watch it, but it was back to the "dark ages." All my other videos--podcasts, streaming flash, whatever--all still look great. Just not this paid movie rental.
Any ideas, folks? I sure am skeptical now of purchasing ANYTHING ELSE on iTunes again.

Hi Epski
Let us know how you go as i'm having the same issue also. I upgraded to yosemite and itunes 12 at the same time and thought the OS upgrade was the issue. I downgraded back to Mavericks again (for lots of reasons i won't go in to here) thinking this would fix the problem but it didn't.
When i play any video content from itunes 12 in full screen goes dark once the controls fade away. QT, appletv or anything else plays them perfectly, as per itunes 11!
You don't have a Samsung TV by any chance do you?

HT1577 how do a get a refund on a ridiculously slow downloading rented movie for my apple tv dispite a 5mb/sec down load speed? my first experience with appletv movie rental. no good. rented at 4:30pm. still waiting for standard def movie to finish at 8:1

how do a get a refund on a ridiculously slow downloading rented movie for my apple tv dispite a >5mb/sec down load speed? my first experience with appletv movie rental. no good. rented at 4:30pm. still waiting for standard def movie to finish at 8:10pm. Not good enough.

Thanks for the pointers folks. Yeah, 1.5GB is pretty poor isn't it? There are other suppliers, but you have to get a their phone line installed to access the internet so it's an £85 setup fee plus a day off work for a guy to come round and drill a hole in your wall before you even get to the monthly costs.
Don't get me wrong though - I'm certainly not an Apple basher, but am equally frustrated with both them and the ISP.
Virgin Media spend all kinds of money advertising their broadband as the fastest in the UK, but don't tell you (up front anyway) that you'll be cut off if you actually try and use it.
Apple on the other hand carry on with their 'it just works' mantra, but with Apple TV this only applies if you meet certain criteria (again, not mentioned up front).
I guess it aint a biggie, as i was gifted my Apple TV, and love all the other stuff it does, but from the number of posts on this forum can see that there's a lot of angry customers out there who want explanations as to why they're having similar problems to me.
Will be very interesting to see if Apple release any kind of software update that turns the flash drive from a buffer to permanent storage, to at least ease some of the pain...
Message was edited by: McGinty

Quicktime V7.4 won't play movie rentals

I upgraded to QT 7.4 and now iTunes won't play my movie rentals. It just somes me the movie with no sound. I have even gone so far as to uninstall 7.4 and install 7.1, but then the movie won't play at all, just goes to the iTunes store and then stops, doing nothing. Can anyone help? Much appreciated.
Larry

I was having the same problem but just found a solution for IE. You need to make sure the QuicktimeCheck Class addon is enabled. Tools>Internet Options>Programs>Manage Addons. (Addons currently loaded in Internet Explorer)
I am not sure how this got disabled but enabling it got rid of the "Get the latest Quicktime" message and allowed me to view trailers once again.

HT200079 I cannot access movie rental through my Apple TV.

The last few months, I have had trouble connecting to My TV.
Now, I cannot find the Movie Rental screen. It only shows me My Movies, which is one.
I wanted to rent a movie tonight. Extremely disappointed, that I cannot access it.
What is the problem, lately. I do not use Apple TV, very often. It is frustrating, when I have to check many settings and go to my computer, to see what is wrong with your service.
Please fix immediately.

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What happened to my movie rental?

Ok, someone please explain this to me. I rented a movie which apple claims we can have for 30 days and after a few hours it is gone!!!
I realized I may have goofed on some type of procedure but I just want to know what I did so that I never throw 4 bucks down the toilet again.

*I rented a movie which apple claims we can have for 30 days and after a few hours it is gone!!!*
Exactly how long did you have the movie and had you begun watching it and stopped? You only have 30 days to begin using it. Once you begin watching the movie it will be gone in 24 hours. If it went before you started watching it then you should contact iTunes Store customer service about a refund: iTunes Store movie rental usage
The iTunes Store movie rental usage rules are as follows:
You have 30 days to watch the movie after the download completes. You can start watching the movie while it is still downloading.
Once you've started to watch the movie, you have 24 hours to finish watching the movie (even if you start watching before the download is complete). You can watch the movie as many times as you want within this 24-hour period.
The rented movie will expire when either the 30 day or 24-hour limit is reached. Once the rental expires, the movie is automatically deleted. You must re-rent and download the movie to view it after your rented movie has expired.

ALV list with empty data - What could have gone wrong?

Dear experts,
I'm currently working on some codes to display data (the tables involved really do contain data), but when the codes are executed, the ALV list does not contain any data in it (only the column headers are fine).
What could have gone wrong? I've been staring at the codes for hours now. Please help. Appreciate any help at all.
Displaying ALV data with REUSE_ALV_LIST_DISPLAY:
form display_alv_data .
CALL FUNCTION 'REUSE_ALV_LIST_DISPLAY'
    EXPORTING
*     I_INTERFACE_CHECK              = ' '
*     I_BYPASSING_BUFFER             =
*     I_BUFFER_ACTIVE                = ' '
      I_CALLBACK_PROGRAM             = w_prog
*     I_CALLBACK_PF_STATUS_SET       = ' '
*     I_CALLBACK_USER_COMMAND        = ' '
*     I_STRUCTURE_NAME               =
*     IS_LAYOUT                      =
      IT_FIELDCAT                    = gt_field_cat[]
*     IT_EXCLUDING                   =
*     IT_SPECIAL_GROUPS              =
*     IT_SORT                        =
*     IT_FILTER                      =
*     IS_SEL_HIDE                    =
*     I_DEFAULT                      = 'X'
*     I_SAVE                         = ' '
*     IS_VARIANT                     =
*     IT_EVENTS                      =
*     IT_EVENT_EXIT                  =
*     IS_PRINT                       =
*     IS_REPREP_ID                   =
*     I_SCREEN_START_COLUMN          = 0
*     I_SCREEN_START_LINE            = 0
*     I_SCREEN_END_COLUMN            = 0
*     I_SCREEN_END_LINE              = 0
*     IR_SALV_LIST_ADAPTER           =
*     IT_EXCEPT_QINFO                =
*     I_SUPPRESS_EMPTY_DATA          = ABAP_FALSE
*   IMPORTING
*     E_EXIT_CAUSED_BY_CALLER        =
*     ES_EXIT_CAUSED_BY_USER         =
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      OTHERS                         = 2.
IF SY-SUBRC <> 0.
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            WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
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form retrieve_data .
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SELECT ekbe~ebeln
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         ekbe~ebelp
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Dear forumers,
I apologize for the rather late reply. The SAP server that I've been working on was down since Thursday evening and I wasn't able to debug much into the codes. Nevertheless, I really do appreciate all of your inputs and help here.
Rob,
I've just debugged my codes again and found out that in the first place, there is no data contained in the internal table gt_1 at all. My rough guess is because I've misused the INNER JOIN wrongly here (see code comments below):-
SELECT ekbe~ebeln
         mseg~mblnr
         ekbe~belnr
         ekbe~ebelp
         ekbe~matnr
         ekbe~menge
         ekbe~dmbtr
         ekbe~werks
         mseg~lgort
         mseg~lifnr
         lfa1~name1 " this line should probably be commented out
FROM ekbe INNER JOIN mseg ON mseg~ebeln = ekbe~ebeln
                    INNER JOIN lfa1 ON lfa1~lifnr = mseg~lifnr   " this line should probably be commented out - the table join here is not based on table ekbe at all
INTO CORRESPONDING FIELDS OF TABLE gt_1
WHERE mseg~bwart = '101' AND
        ekbe~vgabe = '2' AND
        ekbe~matnr IN s_m_num AND
        mseg~lifnr IN s_v_num.
Next, I commented out certain lines further and found that there is still no data contained in the internal table gt_1 again, as follows:-
SELECT ekbe~ebeln
         mseg~mblnr
         ekbe~belnr
         ekbe~ebelp
         ekbe~matnr
         ekbe~menge
         ekbe~dmbtr
         ekbe~werks
         mseg~lgort
         mseg~lifnr
         " lfa1~name1
FROM ekbe INNER JOIN mseg ON mseg~ebeln = ekbe~ebeln
                    " INNER JOIN lfa1 ON lfa1~lifnr = mseg~lifnr
INTO CORRESPONDING FIELDS OF TABLE gt_1.
" WHERE mseg~bwart = '101' AND
        " ekbe~vgabe = '2' AND
        " ekbe~matnr IN s_m_num AND
        " mseg~lifnr IN s_v_num.
There should be data contained in table ekbe here. What could have really gone wrong now?

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