diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
index a2b45859c..dad44435f 100755
--- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -1597,6 +1597,28 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
         self.cookiejar.add_cookie_header(pr)
         return pr.get_header('Cookie')
 
+    def _fill_common_fields(self, info_dict, final=True):
+
+        for ts_key, date_key in (
+                ('timestamp', 'upload_date'),
+                ('release_timestamp', 'release_date'),
+        ):
+            if info_dict.get(date_key) is None and info_dict.get(ts_key) is not None:
+                # Working around out-of-range timestamp values (e.g. negative ones on Windows,
+                # see http://bugs.python.org/issue1646728)
+                try:
+                    upload_date = datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(info_dict[ts_key])
+                    info_dict[date_key] = compat_str(upload_date.strftime('%Y%m%d'))
+                except (ValueError, OverflowError, OSError):
+                    pass
+
+        # Auto generate title fields corresponding to the *_number fields when missing
+        # in order to always have clean titles. This is very common for TV series.
+        if final:
+            for field in ('chapter', 'season', 'episode'):
+                if info_dict.get('%s_number' % field) is not None and not info_dict.get(field):
+                    info_dict[field] = '%s %d' % (field.capitalize(), info_dict['%s_number' % field])
+
     def process_video_result(self, info_dict, download=True):
         assert info_dict.get('_type', 'video') == 'video'
 
@@ -1664,24 +1686,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
         if 'display_id' not in info_dict and 'id' in info_dict:
             info_dict['display_id'] = info_dict['id']
 
-        for ts_key, date_key in (
-                ('timestamp', 'upload_date'),
-                ('release_timestamp', 'release_date'),
-        ):
-            if info_dict.get(date_key) is None and info_dict.get(ts_key) is not None:
-                # Working around out-of-range timestamp values (e.g. negative ones on Windows,
-                # see http://bugs.python.org/issue1646728)
-                try:
-                    upload_date = datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(info_dict[ts_key])
-                    info_dict[date_key] = compat_str(upload_date.strftime('%Y%m%d'))
-                except (ValueError, OverflowError, OSError):
-                    pass
-
-        # Auto generate title fields corresponding to the *_number fields when missing
-        # in order to always have clean titles. This is very common for TV series.
-        for field in ('chapter', 'season', 'episode'):
-            if info_dict.get('%s_number' % field) is not None and not info_dict.get(field):
-                info_dict[field] = '%s %d' % (field.capitalize(), info_dict['%s_number' % field])
+        self._fill_common_fields(info_dict)
 
         for cc_kind in ('subtitles', 'automatic_captions'):
             cc = info_dict.get(cc_kind)