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indeed it looks like a Royer oscillator in there (because there are transistors before AND after the transformer).
TO220 package diodes are pretty common in SMPS applications, so I'm not sure that's a guarantee.
EDIT: Not sure what you're getting at here? Royer doesn't seem to need anything other than a rectifier on the secondary, and plenty of topologies use two power transistors on the primary.
The second smaller transformer below the main one does tend to suggest it could be a Royer, at least from my reading. I don't see the extra switches needed for it to be a PFC stage.
There's still a little SO-8 and optocouplers.
skipped reading the silkscreen … it says Q1 on the lowermost package but the other three are diodes. so could also be a forward converter or something similar.