Why is ffmpeg not in the 16.04 repository?

Question

fmpeg

Everywhere they write that from version 16.04 it is not necessary to add PPA, but this is not true. If I execute on 16.04 sudo apt-get install ffmpegI get Package 'ffmpeg' has no installation candidate
Who is to blame?

Answer 1

and yet it is
https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/ffmpeg
can there be shoals with connected repositories ??