Original size of a movie doubled when added to Easy Media Creator.

Memory in my laptop was getting low, and I got many movies stored so I decided to download Easy Media Creator to burn my movies. I converted those movies to MPEG format so that I can watch it in my television. I observe that the original size of the MPEG format movie doubled when I add it to this software to be burned. I didn't touch any settings when I did this.
The original size of one of the movies is 1.3GB, when I add it in this software, it takes 2.6GB space.
What could be the problem that makes every movie I add on it doubled?
