ok HarveyB, thanks for your response I havent been any help to you have I eh, I panicked a little didnt I eh.
All I wanted to do was to get Sundays F1 grand prix onto a DVD for a friend who had somehow not recorded it.
I have now found that I have some software (iSkySoft iMedia Converter) on my (apple) lap top that can download Video's direct from the BBC iPlayer web site, although it has come out as 720*480 which doesnt give me very good quality at all, but it is better than nowt.
Now to try and answer your many questions, which of course make a lot of sense.
I shall try fill in a few gaps as follows. I selected TV Portal on my remote selected bbc iplayer and selected and played the Grand Prix as shown on Sunday, I had already connected my Router to my Humax.
While it was Playing, is was then that I hunted everywhere I could think of to find the web address I needed to type into my Browser, because I do seem to remember, that it is through my Browser via my Router that I can get access to my Hummys hard drive where it has stored the Last Played bbc iplayer file onto my hummys hard drive, where, again I seem to remember, that I can then save it to a Fat32 memory stick for converting to a DVD Video disc using software I have on my Lap Tops hard drive.
I have done this already, many times last year, I am dammed annoyed with my myself that I am unable to remember how to EXACTLY to do it !
Perhaps all is solved, NOW that I have seen in your very helpful reply, you tell me "how to find the IP address I need" thanks.
Of course now the problem is how to get full use of the TV again, Coronation Street is in full flow at the moment LOL
Tim