Is there any official way to master a disc that looks like a normal redbook audio CD to a naive player (without confusing or screwing up more advanced models), but a DVD player would recognize as a hybrid disc and know that if it looks "beyond" the area occupied by a 3" CD, it'll find familiar-looking DVD tracks where it should begin playing just like a normal disc?

I remember reading about something like this back in the final days before the DVD format was finalized, but I suspect it might have been one of the last-minute casualties of the Grand Compromise.

If I remember right, the basic low-tech idea (expected to be replaced by a better manufacturing process in short order) was that the factory would build a disc whose innermost 1.5" radius would be built to CD specs (and, in fact, look exactly like a 3" CD to a player), but whose outermost 1" band would be manufactured like a DVD. Somewhere along the line, the CD's header would contain a subcoded flag that a normal CD player wouldn't understand and would just ignore, but a DVD player would interpret it as a sign that it should just leap ahead to the CD's lead out, then keep looking until it found the start of the DVD data... at which point it should just treat it like a normal DVD.

Its main envisioned purpose was for CD singles with DVD music video (though presumably the DVD portion itself could have been multisession and included additional mp3/wma audio files, etc as space allowed).

So.. did it, or anything remotely like it, ever make it into the final DVD standard? Or did it get axed and leave us with no good solution to distributing audio CD and DVD video on a single disc?