diff --git a/apex/Android.bp b/apex/Android.bp
index 6ba9cb9..2ae3bbe 100644
--- a/apex/Android.bp
+++ b/apex/Android.bp
@@ -32,15 +32,21 @@
                 "liboggextractor",
                 "libwavextractor",
             ],
+            // Transcoding service only run with primary ABI.
+            binaries: [
+                "mediatranscoding",
+            ],
         },
     },
     // JNI
     native_shared_libs: ["libmediaparser-jni"],
     compile_multilib: "both",
     prebuilts: [
-        "mediaextractor.policy",
         "code_coverage.policy",
+        "com.android.media-mediatranscoding.rc",
         "crash_dump.policy",
+        "mediaextractor.policy",
+        "media-linker-config",
     ],
     key: "com.android.media.key",
     certificate: ":com.android.media.certificate",
@@ -62,9 +68,6 @@
     name: "com.android.media",
     manifest: "manifest.json",
     defaults: ["com.android.media-defaults"],
-    prebuilts: [
-        "media-linker-config",
-    ],
 }
 
 linker_config {
@@ -115,6 +118,13 @@
 }
 
 prebuilt_etc {
+    name: "com.android.media-mediatranscoding.rc",
+    src: "mediatranscoding.rc",
+    filename: "init.rc",
+    installable: false,
+}
+
+prebuilt_etc {
     name: "com.android.media.swcodec-mediaswcodec.rc",
     src: "mediaswcodec.rc",
     filename: "init.rc",
diff --git a/apex/manifest.json b/apex/manifest.json
index f1f69f4..b7d8fc8 100644
--- a/apex/manifest.json
+++ b/apex/manifest.json
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 {
   "name": "com.android.media",
-  "version": 309999900
+  "version": 309999900,
+  "requireNativeLibs": [
+    "libandroid.so",
+    "libbinder_ndk.so",
+    "libmediandk.so",
+    ":sphal"
+  ]
 }
diff --git a/apex/mediatranscoding.rc b/apex/mediatranscoding.rc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fa4acf8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apex/mediatranscoding.rc
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# media.transcoding service is defined on com.android.media apex which goes back
+# to API29, but we only want it started on API31+ devices. So we declare it as
+# "disabled" and start it explicitly on boot.
+service media.transcoding /apex/com.android.media/bin/mediatranscoding
+    class main
+    user media
+    group media
+    ioprio rt 4
+    task_profiles ProcessCapacityHigh HighPerformance
+    disabled