This paper considers the procedures how to improve the decoding speed of software Reed-Solomon decoder. We use look up tables, SIMD parallel processing instruction sets and loop expansion etc. to implement software RS decoder in the Intel CPU platform. The final performance of our software RS decoder achieves the decoding speed 68MBytes/sec (350k RS packets/sec). The DVB-T used in Taiwan needs about 6617 RS packets/sec to achieve real-time reception, so our implementation of software Reed-Solomon decoder takes only 1.89% CPU loading.