YoutubeDLCookieJar,
     YoutubeDLCookieProcessor,
     YoutubeDLHandler,
+    YoutubeDLRedirectHandler,
 )
 from .cache import Cache
 from .extractor import get_info_extractor, gen_extractor_classes, _LAZY_LOADER
                     'playlist_title': ie_result.get('title'),
                     'playlist_uploader': ie_result.get('uploader'),
                     'playlist_uploader_id': ie_result.get('uploader_id'),
-                    'playlist_index': i + playliststart,
+                    'playlist_index': playlistitems[i - 1] if playlistitems else i + playliststart,
                     'extractor': ie_result['extractor'],
                     'webpage_url': ie_result['webpage_url'],
                     'webpage_url_basename': url_basename(ie_result['webpage_url']),
         debuglevel = 1 if self.params.get('debug_printtraffic') else 0
         https_handler = make_HTTPS_handler(self.params, debuglevel=debuglevel)
         ydlh = YoutubeDLHandler(self.params, debuglevel=debuglevel)
+        redirect_handler = YoutubeDLRedirectHandler()
         data_handler = compat_urllib_request_DataHandler()
 
         # When passing our own FileHandler instance, build_opener won't add the
         file_handler.file_open = file_open
 
         opener = compat_urllib_request.build_opener(
-            proxy_handler, https_handler, cookie_processor, ydlh, data_handler, file_handler)
+            proxy_handler, https_handler, cookie_processor, ydlh, redirect_handler, data_handler, file_handler)
 
         # Delete the default user-agent header, which would otherwise apply in
         # cases where our custom HTTP handler doesn't come into play