diff --git a/media/libmediaplayerservice/nuplayer/NuPlayerDriver.cpp b/media/libmediaplayerservice/nuplayer/NuPlayerDriver.cpp
index ab46074..4bff90f 100644
--- a/media/libmediaplayerservice/nuplayer/NuPlayerDriver.cpp
+++ b/media/libmediaplayerservice/nuplayer/NuPlayerDriver.cpp
@@ -316,6 +316,13 @@
 }
 
 status_t NuPlayerDriver::pause() {
+    // The NuPlayerRenderer may get flushed if pause for long enough, e.g. the pause timeout tear
+    // down for audio offload mode. If that happens, the NuPlayerRenderer will no longer know the
+    // current position. So similar to seekTo, update |mPositionUs| to the pause position by calling
+    // getCurrentPosition here.
+    int msec;
+    getCurrentPosition(&msec);
+
     Mutex::Autolock autoLock(mLock);
 
     switch (mState) {
diff --git a/media/libmediaplayerservice/nuplayer/NuPlayerRenderer.cpp b/media/libmediaplayerservice/nuplayer/NuPlayerRenderer.cpp
index 638d9bc..b5577c4 100644
--- a/media/libmediaplayerservice/nuplayer/NuPlayerRenderer.cpp
+++ b/media/libmediaplayerservice/nuplayer/NuPlayerRenderer.cpp
@@ -1012,6 +1012,7 @@
          Mutex::Autolock autoLock(mLock);
          syncQueuesDone_l();
          setPauseStartedTimeRealUs(-1);
+         setAnchorTime(-1, -1);
     }
 
     ALOGV("flushing %s", audio ? "audio" : "video");