[mythtv] Intro and Mythweb

[Chris Petersen]

> I suppose.  You could show benefit from the caching mechanisms and I 
> think in our case, the code reuse between frontend platforms is an 
> excellent opportunity for improvement, especially with projects like 
> MythWeb, MythRoku, MythMVP and others coming online.
> Making the protocol more inclusive by adding additional commands does 
> not disallow direct DB access by the frontend, but provides a standard 
> mechanism for other frontends to speak to the backend, especially for 
> platforms where MySQL access is unavailable or undesired.

Not to mention not having to deal with firewall access and mysql grant 
permissions for remote hosts.

-Chris